Running gun violence thread

Lifted off his feet!?! Good grief.

As I said, one incident shouldn't define a person's entire life.

 

Everyone spins. There was a rush in the immediate aftermath to interview his family and friends so we could get their unbiased accounts of what a perfect kid he was.

It doesn't justify the ham-handed handling of the aftermath, but it's at least plausible the department's story of a scuffle and a fight for the gun was true.

 

Good grief is right ! Who walks into a convenience store and
strangles someone to steal cigars in a civilized society?

You want to argue that the cop over reacted fine but you are
defending the indefensible when you are somehow trying to
explain away Brown's choke hold on the store clert.

 

A person's physical strength and ability can be considered when charging a crime. A boxer or a black-belt in karate, for example, can be considered armed with lethal weapons just for their hands. I don't know how often it happens, though.

 

One thing for sure based on his girth he could not have been
Obama's son.

 

Police are going to lean on the fact that cop has no disciplinary record. Worth reading that Daily Beast link that was posted on previous page -- until 2010 the department didn't even keep disciplinary records, not even for the officers who charged the guy with bleeding on their clothes while they were beating him (in a case of mistaken identity).

 

But you're not going to talk about this anymore.

Right?

 

Big Circus:

I haven't read EVERY story or heard EVERY interview but I've seen/read the term "strong-armed" robbery. There is a difference between that term and "armed" robbery.

 

So that means, if we believe the police records, the office in question had no issues for 4+ years of his six years on the force. Correct?

 

No. Although the formalized procedure now exists, there is a large question about its use and enforcement. (Read the link.)

And the cops who beat the shit out of the guy in the jail cell are still on the force, so the culture exists as well.

 

So what you're saying is that even though you don't have proof that he did anything wrong specifically, he's one of *those* people, so he probably did and if not he's part of the culture so he's equally culpable.

Sometimes both sides deserve each other more than they realize.

 

Ho-lee shit. Have a great day.