Ferguson / Staten Island Decisions -- No Indictments

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It pretty much should be, and everyone seems to understand that.

You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

If you attack a police officer, you just gave him permission to use deadly force. The fact that the officer is armed means that his life is in danger if he is attacked, because his gun could be taken from him.

 

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That's a horrible opinion and I'm sad that I have to share a world with someone who thinks that.

 

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Eyewitnesses get details wrong. That's understood.

These weren't folks who's sense of how long an encounter lasted was off, who misjudged a distance, or who got the color of someone's shirt wrong.

These were folks who lied. They did not witness the event at all, and later admitted to repeating what they had heard.

Fuck them. They should be prosecuted.

 

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We all know that's not going to happen.

People are so angry at the police, they've decided to ignore anything that doesn't fit with that narrative.

Shocking, I know.

 

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But with some mustard and lettuce and served on a nice, soft wheat bread, it's just so tasty.

 

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OK, hmmm... why did this particular subject of a Grand Jury investigation choose to testify? Could it be because he knew he'd get to tell his version of the events without a lick of cross examination from the prosecutor who had no interest in getting an indictment?

I have no doubt he believes he's not guilty of a crime. Doesn't mean he isn't.

 

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It's not opinion.

And, I'm sorry that you have to share the planet with 99% of the world who does not share your world view.

How should an "attack on a cop end"? What's the good conclusion to something like that?

The cop could be dead. The attacker could be dead. Or, the attacker can hold out hope that if he is losing, he can turn on a dime from attacker to non-combatant, and that the cop will recognize this shift in time, be able to compose himself, and properly evaluate the situation to ensure that the threat is indeed over, and that the attacker is not just looking for a "time-out" before resuming the attack.

An attacker who takes this chance is a fool.

 

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I was pulled over once for no apparent reason. Was told I was being stopped because I was too close to the cop car on the side of the Interstate when I passed by. All of a sudden, another cop shows up and they start asking me a bunch of personal questions. Eventually, they ask to search my vehicle. I say there's no reason to. Cop #1 then calls in for the K-9 unit. I finally acquiesce to this bullshit and spend 15 minutes on the side of the road while they go through my car. Total nonsense from a couple power-tripping assholes that pissed me off. But I never thought to attack one of them because being treated unfairly is bad, but not nearly as bad as what happens when you attack an authority figure who is carrying a gun.

You can use all the big words you want, Rick, but it's assinine to think that bad things are not going to happen WHEN YOU ATTACK A COP. On a related note, go out tonight and attack one. See what happens. You might find they're not as racist as you think.

 

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And directed at the social medias. Because the socials medias are bad.

Anyway, another funny, err, better not say funny, but interesting thing about the timeline is that 10 minutes earlier Wilson went to the scene where 2-month-old was having trouble breathing. 10 minutes later he shot the final breaths out of Mike Mike.

 

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Just so we're straight Rick, are you saying that if I try to take a cop's gun away from him, he's not justified in taking said gun and shooting me with it?

I'm not saying that I know for a fact that this is what happened in the Ferguson case. I wasn't there, of course.

But we're gonna have a hard time finding anyone to serve in law enforcement if we're gonna defend the right of people to take weapons away from police officers.

 

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Prosecutors are also responsible for NOT running a show trial they know they have no chance of winning.

 

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A. How could he possibly know that? You know the grand jurors themselves can ask questions, right?

2. Unlike some of the witnesses who said he killed Michael Brown while standing over him, or who said he shot Brown in the back, Wilson's testimony was not contradicted by the forensic evidence.