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winstars

(4,220 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:22 PM Aug 2014

WTF? So Michael Brown was shot 3 (three) different times??? Not 3 times, 3 different times...

Is this description correct, which is based on his friend's description of the events and now the woman who saw the whole thing. And clearly my understanding of what they have said:

1. The cop shoots Brown whilst still in his vehicle.
2. The cop shoots Brown in the back as he runs for his life.
3. The cop shoots Brown again after Brown stops and turns around and puts his hands up.

No matter what they do or don't do, we will eventually know the sequence of event thru ballistics and angles and the like.

But if the above is what happened, I can see why they are afraid to say what happened.

All because he was walking in the street while Black...

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justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
3. Differing tales of what happened with the vehicle
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:26 PM
Aug 2014

Witness Johnson says the cop pulled Brown into the car and shot him... the police say Brown was trying to wrestle the cops gun away and the cop shot him.

Unvanguard

(4,588 posts)
5. But at most that only gets you to 1., what about 2. and 3.?
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:31 PM
Aug 2014

Even if you buy the police story (which you shouldn't).

Edit: Sorry, thought you were replying to the OP. Keeping this up but not intended as a disagreement with your post.

winstars

(4,220 posts)
7. OK, so then the cop fires his weapon 2 additional times at Brown before he succeeds in killing him?
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:36 PM
Aug 2014

They should be able to tell in a autopsy if he was shot once "in, near, around or by" the police car. They should be able to tell if he was shot in the back wile running away. They should be able to tell if he was then shot in "the front"...

All I am saying is:

3 separate shootings=WTF!

How the first shooting happened will always be up for debate most likely, the other 2, not so much...

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
10. I heard that the cop who shot him--was being treated for...
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:39 PM
Aug 2014

…contusions to his head and face. The cops are alleging that Brown tried to rough up the police officer, and hit him repeatedly in the face.

Such bullshit. I wonder which cop friend of his beat up his face, in order to provide physical "evidence" for their little fantasy story?

That cop needs to be under investigation and the marks on his face need to be examined by a forensic detective. My guess is that the marks on his face will not match up with Brown's hand/knuckles or anything else.

These pieces of shit are lying.

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
11. I wonder if the car door bounced back and smacked him in the head? And then he lost it.
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:41 PM
Aug 2014

Smells like roid rage to me...

madashelltoo

(1,703 posts)
6. Michael did not stroke cops ego.
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:33 PM
Aug 2014

Michael is guilty of being a big, black man who did not snap to the will of an officer. This plantation, Jim Crow mentality is not new. He would have gone home with a hard on if he could have successfully humiliated Michael. I don't even think this stupid cop meant to pull the trigger the first time. Rage pulled it. That old, "How dare that N....r ignore me?" reaction that has caused more heartache in the black community than poverty.

Unvanguard

(4,588 posts)
8. "It was a normal mistake of which many are guilty:
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:36 PM
Aug 2014

He thought he was a man and that men were not meant to be pushed around."

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
13. These crazy cops...
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 12:44 PM
Aug 2014

…know that they can get away with murdering whoever they want. All they have to do is shoot, then claim that the victim came at them or attacked them.

It's disgusting.

There is a local case, in our area that is equally disgusting. A young 20-year old man was arrested for having an open container of alcohol on a boat. He shouldn't have been drinking, but he was a good kid with a promising future in college. While transporting the young man on a boat, to the station--they didn't put a life vest on him, but handcuffed him.

They drove the boat erratically and too quickly, and the man fell into the water and drown. Being cuffed and thrown into the water with no life vest left him helpless.

The cops are claiming that he suddenly jumped into the water from a moving boat.

I am so sick of these sociopathic cowards lying their asses off. There are good cops, but there is a contingent of out-of-control toddler cops who lie and harm people. They need to be held to account.

It's sick what these cops are getting away with.

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