18 and Dead.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by nailer

This site is slow. I edited my post to more clearly present my point. You responded more quickly than I could edit.

The alleged robbery is a red herring however you present it. The officer was not responding to a robbery report. He was rousting a young man for jaywalking.

Who then attacked him because he'd just robbed a convenience store.

"Red herrings" aren't so typically involved in causation...

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Zeke

No. It's just meaningless.

All it does is give credence to the theory that the officer was attacked.

Do you like destroying your own credibility?

That response makes no sense at all.

It was so off the wall that I went back and checked to see if I had perhaps posted the wrong link and you were responding to that.

But it was the right link.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

It appears to me the officer did not know Brown was a robbery suspect.

I will allow that Brown may have thought that he was being stopped for a more serious offense than walking in the street and may have tried to resist arrest and flee to avoid having to face those charges.

Still that in no way justify's him being shot.

Again, a solid step towards actual thinking but then you try to rationalize RESISTING ARREST?

Jesus Christ...

[icenine]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Because you are the backup.Seriously?

No policeman would agree with you on that one.

I glad you are not a cop you probably be going all Clint Eastwood on us.


Odd that Governor Nixon is not calling Brown a thug. Quote:

"To attempt to in essence disparage the character of this victim in the middle of a process is not right. It’s just not right," he said. "And secondarily, it did put the community, and quite frankly the region and the nation, on alert again. These are old wounds. These are deep wounds in these communities. And that action was not helpful."

Now Zeke as far as I know you are not running for Governor...but even Democratic libtards hate being viewed as soft on crime. If Nixon is calling Brown a victim I take that to mean there may be some truth to what the eyewitnesses are saying.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

It certainly did on the outcome.

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We'll never know what bearing the alleged robbery had because the officer failed to physically subdue the teen. We'll also never know if the jaywalker assaulted the officer.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The only thing we are sure of is that the kid robbed a convenience store, got shot a few minutes later and the community blew up afterwards. Everything else is speculation.

such as the possible PCP use lol

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by icenine

No policeman would agree with you on that one.

For an initially perceived jaywalker? Find one who doesn't...

Originally Posted by icenine

Odd that Governor Nixon is not calling Brown a thug.

No, it's not.

If a politician needed Mussolini's family votes he'd find a manner in which to praise him...

[nailer]

Originally Posted by icenine

No policeman would agree with you on that one.

I glad you are not a cop you probably be going all Clint Eastwood on us.

Dirty Harry only shot bad guys dude.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by nailer

We'll never know what bearing the alleged robbery had because the officer failed to physically subdue the teen. We'll also never know if the jaywalker assaulted the officer.

1. The teen WAS physically subdued, permanently.
2. The implication is that it could have been less so.

The only way to know that would have been to put the officer in additional danger.

We know, at the very least, the teen had JUST committed a crime and was stopped by an officer. An immediate struggle ensued leading to shots fired IN THE CAR.

This didn't occur in a vacuum.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Who then attacked him because he'd just robbed a convenience store.
"Red herrings" aren't so typically involved in causation...

We will never know this. Biased speculation to support your point.