It's very good that police are under the spotlight because they do need to be reigned in but this is a terrible case to rally it around. Brown was obviously off the rails that day and made a number of very bad decisions. It's still possible Wilson was in the wrong but applying the rule of innocent until proven guilty...
I haven't read through older threads about this which were posted before I joined this forum but there is one thing I noticed about this incident that I never hear mentioned: Wilson made an obvious tactical error. You have a guy who just committed a strong-arm robbery (a very brazen crime by itself) but instead of laying low, he walks down the middle of the street and tells a cop to fuck off after he simply told him to move to the sidewalk. That plus his size makes him obviously dangerous. He should have pulled his vehicle up at least 50' in front of Brown to give himself some stand-off room. If he had done that, I suspect Brown would have been arrested without incident.
I haven't read through older threads about this which were posted before I joined this forum but there is one thing I noticed about this incident that I never hear mentioned: Wilson made an obvious tactical error. You have a guy who just committed a strong-arm robbery (a very brazen crime by itself) but instead of laying low, he walks down the middle of the street and tells a cop to fuck off after he simply told him to move to the sidewalk. That plus his size makes him obviously dangerous. He should have pulled his vehicle up at least 50' in front of Brown to give himself some stand-off room. If he had done that, I suspect Brown would have been arrested without incident.
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