I didn't make this conversation about race, you did. I don't think you're a racist either, I just think you jumped to conclusions about my post. Yes there is racial tension after this happened, but that's because it's not about Michael Brown anymore. Yes, I think the racial issues are important and need to be addressed.

But...I am far more concerned with how easily the police in this country will just kill someone. Maybe calling it murder isn't technically correct because of special laws that allow the police to kill people when the average citizen would not have that right. I went to a fairly large high school. I was in a graduating class of over 1100 students. I have seen some big sized people brought to their knees by a taser gun.

(August 30, 2014 at 6:19 am)Losty Wrote: Listen p'slice I don't even like to call people guilty when they're around to defend themselves if they haven't been proven guilty. But I certainly won't do it to someone who cannot even defend himself because he was murdered by the police.

Admit it you just like calling him guilty so you don't have to feel bad that you couldn't care less about his death.

That's fine, you have your right to believe what you want , but I have eyes that can see what did happen, and a brain to put one and one together.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/31...-black-man

Quote:Quick question for white conservatives: Is it ever NOT okay to shoot dead an unarmed black man?

There are some people around here who won't see themselves in this.

(August 30, 2014 at 12:49 am)Losty Wrote: Ooohhhh I thought he was innocent. Do you have a link to the video when they took his corpse to trial and it was convicted by a jury of its peers?

I believe he waved that right when beat up a cop and tried to take his gun

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-...as-killed/

(September 4, 2014 at 11:15 pm)Drich Wrote:

(August 30, 2014 at 12:49 am)Losty Wrote: Ooohhhh I thought he was innocent. Do you have a link to the video when they took his corpse to trial and it was convicted by a jury of its peers?

I believe he waved that right when beat up a cop and tried to take his gun

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-...as-killed/

Wait so now if we are accused of a crime after we die, then we waive our right to be innocent until proven guilty.

Wrong, shithead. From your own posting.

Quote:Several witnesses have told investigators that Mr. Brown stopped and turned around with his arms up.

A cop does not have the right to shoot someone because he is pissed at him.* Even a fucking moron like you should be able to comprehend that simple fact.


* May not apply in parts of the fucking south.

And in Springfield, Mo just minutes away..





Two wrongs don't make a right, but some blacks in Mo are obviously racist. I wonder if any of these 5 or so were in the protests.. or are "witnesses."

(August 30, 2014 at 3:10 am)Losty Wrote:

(August 30, 2014 at 1:04 am)psychoslice Wrote: No I don't about that at all ?.

Well isn't he innocent until proven guilty?

Isn't the cop?

(September 5, 2014 at 5:03 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:

(August 30, 2014 at 3:10 am)Losty Wrote: Well isn't he innocent until proven guilty?

Isn't the cop?

Not in my book. Cops are hardly ever tried for killing people without just cause. At the very least the cop is around to defend himself.

(August 30, 2014 at 12:49 am)Losty Wrote: Ooohhhh I thought he was innocent. Do you have a link to the video when they took his corpse to trial and it was convicted by a jury of its peers?

It's in the same place as the video of the cop's trial, whom you've already convicted in absentia.

There's a good chance this is going to go down as a lawful shooting, unless physical evidence to discredit the cop's version is found: he didn't shoot Brown during the tussle at the police car, at that range there would have been gunshot residue. He didn't shoot Brown from behind, all the wounds are consistent with Brown facing the cop. The version of the witnesses, one of whom was close enough friends with Brown to steal cigars with him, is pretty shaky. It's not definitive yet, but since under our law the man is innocent until proven guilty, I think he's got a good chance of being acquitted, based on what we know so far.

I feel sorry for this kid and his family, and the response of the Ferguson police to protests was foolish, but the shooting is being investigated by the county and the feds, not the Ferguson PD, and it's their job to evaluate whether there's enough evidence to warrant bringing Wilson to trial, and then it's the jury's job to determine his guilt, not ours. We can't have as much evidence as they will before they have to make their decisions. The rightness or wrongness of the Ferguson PD response to rioters is independent of whether the shooting went down one way or the other. I think it's a mistake to attach too much to one version of the shooting when the real issue is cops who look like they're equipped to free hostages from ISIL showing up for crowd control in an American town and detaining journalists.