Ferguson / Staten Island Decisions -- No Indictments

Re: Ferguson Decision -- No Indictment

Just because Wilson was attacked previously doesn't mean unloading 12 rounds from a half a football field away wasn't excessive force.

 

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So Wilson is just automatically telling the truth despite the incongruities we know about in his testimony?

Remember Brown's friend's first statements that the cop pulled Brown into the car. That isn't necesarily right, but neither is the word of a guy who is trying to stay out of prison. There wasn't much effort to square all that up in the testimony.

 

Re: Ferguson Decision -- No Indictment

Just because a 6'5 300-pounder with a puncher's attitude attacked a cop doesn't mean ...

Sorry, SS, but that's not cutting it for me.

 

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Nope. You shoot until the subject is neutralized.

 

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If I'm the officer and you keep coming forward after I shoot you 3 times, I'm going to keep shooting.

Sorry, but the point was to make Brown stop advancing.

If it was proven that Brown had stopped and surrendered, but Wilson kept shooting, that's obviously another matter entirely.

 

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I've noticed this size thing seems to be a talking point folks on the right have adopted today to explain away the number of shots. I guess the implication being that firing 12 rounds and shooting him 6 times would be excessive if he was a normal sized guy, but hey, since he was 6'5" 289 it was perfectly fine.

I'm just curious if those floating that reasoning have any evidence that it takes 6 shots to take down a 6'5" man. I always thought big guys were pretty much equally vulnerable and went down just as hard as little guys when a bullet has pierced their organs.

 

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Wilson looks a lot like Jordan Zimmermann. Weird.

 

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I've voted Democrat since '89.

 

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What is this, the Walking Dead? An unarmed man was shot three times, and continued to charge this officer at his car, and then after he died, his body was magically moved 150 feet from his vehicle?

 

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There is conflicting testimony on whether Brown was "charging." Some witnesses said he was standing still, others said he was stumbling.

 

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Congratulations?

 

Re: Ferguson Decision -- No Indictment

No spoilers! FUCK!