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Move goal posts much?![]()
From what?
Is the story that he was running away and shot in the back?
Is the story is that he was surrendering?
On his knees hands up?
Enlighten me...
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Move goal posts much?![]()
Let us know how that works out for you when you've been having your head repeatedly smashed in to the pavement and your attacker, who is intent on killing you, stands to face the single cop who's showed up.Or, you could put your foot on the go pedal of your Police Cruiser, move to a safe distance, call in a disturbance and request backup.
Police training emphasizes being at a tactically superior and safe position from a perceived threat.
From what?
It certainly is.
If Brown was not advancing on Wilson, Brown being unarmed is certainly of consequence. That would make it an unjustified shoot.
If he'd been armed, but not advancing it could certainly be a justified shoot.
The fact that a subject may be unarmed is NOT a gating factor in the decision to shoot or not. That decision is based solely on the subjects behavior and the threat to the officer.
about_average said:Then it appears you think being armed or not couldn't have any bearing on the level of threat.
I can assure you I'd feel more threatened by someone pointing a gun at me and screaming obscenities than I would by someone pointing their finger at me and screaming obscenities.
Exact same behavior, being armed significantly raises the threat level.
You really need to learn how to follow a discussion.Is that person the size of a defensive lineman?
If so, your point has some validity, the gun would make you empty even more of your bladder, but the fact remains, if a guy that size is screaming at your, pointing at you, and charging you, unless that happens to you on a regular basis, you still might be inclined to a bit of a piddle...
A few maybe, but more often than no what I observe is those people essentially saying there's not way it wasn't justified.This is the group that believes in the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven.
Let us know how that works out for you when you've been having your head repeatedly smashed in to the pavement and your attacker, who is intent on killing you, stands to face the single cop who's showed up.
I'm sure your relatives will be happy the cop retreated and called for backup.
You really need to learn how to follow a discussion.
“Imagine what we would feel and what we would do if white drivers were three times as likely to be searched by police during a traffic stop as black drivers, instead of the other way around,” Clinton said,
“if white offenders received prison sentences 10% longer than black offenders for the same crimes, if a third of all white men — just look at this room and take one third — went to prison during their lifetime.
Imagine that.
That is the reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans and so many of the communities in which they live.”
Hillary Speaks:
Hillary should take a drive through a crack hood and see if she gets stopped...
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... only one reason white folks there. "I ain't no ways tired!"
I took a Cadillac Allante ragtop out of the GM Press Pool at the 1990 Detroit Auto Show, dropped the top and went for a spin around Detroit.
I quickly came to understand why people don't stop at red lights on Eight Mile.
Was it a nice ride?
Hillary Speaks:
Only if the person says no. Police can search anyone who gives permission, probable cause or not.Probable cause is required for a police search.
So what's your theory on the sentence disparity for the same crime?Judges serve sentences, are all judges "racist" or is there some other reason why 1/3 end up in prison?
Only if the person says no. Police can search anyone who gives permission, probable cause or not.
So what's your theory on the sentence disparity for the same crime?
“Imagine what we would feel and what we would do if white drivers were three times as likely to be searched by police during a traffic stop as black drivers, instead of the other way around,” Clinton said,
Probable cause is required for a police search.
“if white offenders received prison sentences 10% longer than black offenders for the same crimes, if a third of all white men — just look at this room and take one third — went to prison during their lifetime.
Judges serve sentences, are all judges "racist" or is there some other reason why 1/3 end up in prison?
Imagine that.
That is the reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans and so many of the communities in which they live.”
Only if the person says no. Police can search anyone who gives permission, probable cause or not.
So what's your theory on the sentence disparity for the same crime?
A few maybe, but more often than no what I observe is those people essentially saying there's not way it wasn't justified.