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calimary

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21. Welcome to DU, Curtis!

Tue Aug 26, 2014, 03:15 AM

Aug 2014

Glad you're here! It's just been the most maddening, frustrating, sad, disappointing, and rather (sadly) illuminating experience. For those of us (I say "us" because one of those naifs was yours truly) who thought, naively, that the election of Barack Obama to the presidency meant we actually, somehow, had turned a page on racism in this country. I thought it meant MAYBE we really had grown up as a nation and left that shit behind. I was sure that America had finally gotten over it, or at least made a solid, recognizable start.

WRONG, WRONG, and WRONG AGAIN.

My disappointment is as big as the galaxy.

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CNN Breaking News - Possible Audio of Michael Brown Shooting [View all] Curtis Aug 2014 OP

So it is quite possible that he shot while Brown was running away. Live and Learn Aug 2014 #1

Yes. The audio matches what the witnesses said Cali_Democrat Aug 2014 #2

link here riverwalker Aug 2014 #3

Thank you Curtis Aug 2014 #6

I counted ten shots aint_no_life_nowhere Aug 2014 #9

My service weapon held 15 Curtis Aug 2014 #15

Welcome to DU, Curtis! calimary Aug 2014 #21

Given Josie exboyfil Aug 2014 #4

The guy who recorded it Curtis Aug 2014 #7

More credibility than Josie exboyfil Aug 2014 #8

I bet the Grand Jury won't hear that tape. The prosecutor can pick and choose rhett o rick Aug 2014 #5

Maybe, maybe not but assuming the tape can be confirmed as cstanleytech Aug 2014 #10

You mean in a civil suit? You realize that if the Grand Jury doesn't indict, they won't go to court rhett o rick Aug 2014 #12

Who knows cstanleytech Aug 2014 #16

The FBI will use it in their civil rights investigation if corroborated. nt conservaphobe Aug 2014 #13

How many shots were fired? nm rhett o rick Aug 2014 #11

11. 6 then 5. Damming. applegrove Aug 2014 #14

This sounds real to me. gvstn Aug 2014 #17

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2014 #18

It's that loud - cwydro Aug 2014 #19

A lot should come out. Audio of dispatchers alerting to the alleged shoplifting. On time or not? brewens Aug 2014 #20