Running gun violence thread

Saying the cop was wrong to issue that threat doesn't mean any of that.

 

Christopher Hayes ‏@chrislhayes 1m

I'm looking at what appears to be a dead body in the middle of Chambers

 

Are you referring to the Ferguson PD, The State , County or all police
collectively?

 

Every reporter who tweeted that followed up by saying they were only talking about the most recent reports.

There have been numerous reports of shots fired. And, if that's the case, no cop wants to be lit up by a high powered light if protestors are firing guns.

 

Has anyone been able to interview the store clerk that Brown choked?

 

So when faced with a problem that has many, many solutions, the police officer goes straight to threatening to shoot the person. That *is* the problem.

 

Any police, any body at all, that prevent the press from doing its job. Let the press assume their own risk.

And I meant "wipe" not "whip" above. Dumb typo.

 

"Journalism" sure has changed. We didn't have "Getting Arrested, 101" in the curriculum when I was in school.

 

Funny how some cases like this one capture the interest of the media and others like
the Danroy Henry police shooting get no traction.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/danroy-henry-update-family-of-student-killed-by-cop-say-1st-official-account-of-shooting-was-purposely-misleading/

 

The utterly inept police response has been the reason this story has traction. Otherwise it'd just be another dead guy on the pile.

 

Police response in that case was equally inept. heartbreaking part of that case was that
they just left the kid to die in street - 3 minutes from a major trauma center.

 

Police response to the protests.