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Exactly. Now think about your response.
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Exactly. Now think about your response.
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Please drop the condescension. I am not a transnational progressive or 'neo-marxist' as some would say.
Are you a cop? Or have a cop in your family?
All the cop has to think is that the suspect is dangerous to the public.
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Now that's bullshit. The cop should fire only if there's IMMANENT danger.
nowisthetime
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Right, the character of the person doesn't matter. Shooting is the last resort they teach you in police academy.
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Unless you're an online cop, then you shoot fleeing suspects and hope no one notices while you try to get your story (lies) straight.
That's your opinion. It's legal for a cop to shoot a fleeing suspect in the back if the cop has a reasonable belief the suspect is dangerous to the public. That's been decided by the Supreme Court.
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*smh*
Go, stick up for the cop. Witnesses be damned, because cops are always right
I'm just stating a fact, in this case.
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Did the Supreme Court also specify a bag limit on Negroes?
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So it's your opinion that the cop in question shot Mr Brown in the back is justified because the Supreme Court said so, even when witnesses contradict the facts?
No, and I have no idea how you came to that conclusion, if you did. It's not even certain Brown was shot in the back, although I suspect he may have been. I'm merely pointing out that is not a question crucial to this case. What is crucial is whether Brown had stopped fleeing and had turned around with his hands up when he was fatally shot.
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Yeah if the criminal is wielding a WEAPON against someone, for instance, a rampage shooter or someone holding another hostage. The kid was outside, unarmed. What danger would he pose? LOL.
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Your insistence that the cop can be justified.
And...if Brown's hand were up with his back turned, the cop STILL had no justification for shooting. Tell me otherwise how it can be.
It's not necessary the suspect be armed to be considered dangerous. But I was speaking in generalities, not about this particular case. But I'm sure if Brown was shot in the back the shooting officer would justify it by saying he considered Brown to be dangerous.
Again, the crucial question is whether Brown was surrendering before he was shot. Period.
No one has said Brown had his hands up with his back to the cop, but I think it would be murder to shoot him under those circumstances, if he was standing still.
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Even if he wasn't, there's still no justification.
In your opinion.
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Come on, you can't be this thick headed. So someone has to be still with their hands up, or it's open season on "suspects who may be a danger to public safety"?
So someone throws up their hands and doesn't stop right away because, you know, science...
Yes, if a suspect is surrendering he should not be fleeing from an officer of the law or advancing on an officer of the law, whether he has his hands up or not.
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Science. SMDH.
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Yes science.
Okay, I'll bite. What the hell are you talking about? By science, surely you're not talking about the brief amount of time it takes for a suspect who is fleeing from a cop to come to a stop, or the brief amount of time it takes for a suspect who is advancing on a cop to come to a stop. Surely that's not what you mean.
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You guys are arguing "what if"
There has not been a peep from the other side.
Holder is providing another FBI pathologist, in addition to the local guy, for a 2nd opinion.
The truth will come out.
There has not been a peep from the other side.
Holder is providing another FBI pathologist, in addition to the local guy, for a 2nd opinion.
The truth will come out.
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