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TexasMommaWithAHat

(3,212 posts)
84. Read the testimony
Sun Nov 30, 2014, 03:22 PM
Nov 2014

I can't remember exactly how many he took, but I believe that Johnson states how many.

And it doesn't matter how many he took - no amount would make it a death penalty offense.

Why What Happened In The Store Matters [View all] TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 OP
what you don't understand is Darrron Wilson's ACCOUNT of Brown's behavior hlthe2b Nov 2014 #1
No, I question his behavior TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #3
were you there? No, then you are assuming Wilson accounts of his behavior. hlthe2b Nov 2014 #6
Were you there? phil89 Nov 2014 #142
I'm not the one telling everone what transpired with someone NOW DEAD. hlthe2b Nov 2014 #144
I reconcile this sad state of affairs this way: Both Brown and Wilson snappyturtle Nov 2014 #14
we don't understand his (Brown's) behavior because he did not get a chance to say anything. Xipe Totec Nov 2014 #2
I am talking about Brown's behavior before he ever encountered Wilson TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #5
Turn off Faux for one day and see if you can see anything other than their talking points on this. hlthe2b Nov 2014 #10
WATCH CNN a few hours a week. TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #12
CNN's been nearly as bad on this... Ratings, from the racist froth they are stirring up seems to be hlthe2b Nov 2014 #16
And I'm saying he didn't get to tell his side. Xipe Totec Nov 2014 #11
Perhaps there's more to the video than meets the eye. JaneyVee Nov 2014 #17
Due process. tosh Nov 2014 #4
The initial narrative from Dorian Johnson XemaSab Nov 2014 #7
Yes. elleng Nov 2014 #115
why being a part of the KKK really matters, when a white cop in a black area. ya think? seabeyond Nov 2014 #8
WTF? nt elias49 Nov 2014 #9
OMG AN 18YR OLD ACTING IRRATIONALLY?!!! JaneyVee Nov 2014 #13
He was eighteen. Not two. TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #18
he didnt "get caught". the cop didnt know he was in the store. yes. you are wrong. nt seabeyond Nov 2014 #22
Bad wording. He was "caught" by the guy at the door TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #28
you want to create this whole conjecture, pinning brown responsible for his death, when the cops seabeyond Nov 2014 #35
That has been discussed at length here TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #41
ok seabeyond Nov 2014 #43
Yes, it would have been good Spirochete Nov 2014 #67
Who knows if you're wrong or right on that. No one. JaneyVee Nov 2014 #23
I grew up in the hood and worked azmom Nov 2014 #80
Really? TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #91
I think people teach their kids azmom Nov 2014 #103
What would happen to the people who didn't comply? helpmetohelpyou Nov 2014 #106
The store owner would talk to them and escort them azmom Nov 2014 #109
Maybe that is why we never got robbed. azmom Nov 2014 #111
A store owner I know put a sign up no more than 3 kids helpmetohelpyou Nov 2014 #116
He mainly hired teenagers and paid azmom Nov 2014 #124
Why float this turd on a site that has debumked it MANY times already? U4ikLefty Nov 2014 #15
Before Wilson backed up his car. TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #21
Yeah, you want to understand the mindset of the victim. U4ikLefty Nov 2014 #36
The store video itself is extremely hard to truedelphi Nov 2014 #132
I don't understand why the shop owner said Brown did not steal from the store Rex Nov 2014 #19
The shopkeeper carefully said that he didn't say TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #25
So you now can read the shop owners mind? Maybe 'he didn't steal' means just that Rex Nov 2014 #31
The Grand Jury was not presented with evidence that indicated that Brown robbed the store. Warren Stupidity Nov 2014 #145
No, just Dorian Johnson's very detailed version of events in the store. TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #147
One possibility - the behavior doesn't make any sense because it's not what actually happened. hedgehog Nov 2014 #20
Ah, the grumpy, moody teenager who wasn't actually convicted of any crime concern. IdaBriggs Nov 2014 #24
The man fears for his life. He doesn't want to have anything to do with this! TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #26
Summons to a Grand Jury aren't things you can just say "not coming to" IdaBriggs Nov 2014 #101
Why should the shopkeeper have been summoned TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #117
You just did an entire post about "what happened there matters" but now IdaBriggs Nov 2014 #125
That's it in a nutshell, isn't it? The copologists project a 'sincere desire to KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #57
First, stop yelling. ScreamingMeemie Nov 2014 #27
"a cop shot a man whom he probably shouldn't have shot" TBF Nov 2014 #29
I guess next time we should shoot Winona Ryder Starry Messenger Nov 2014 #30
Actually, those rich white girls TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #34
are you fuggin' serious? lordy. sounding all hat here, ... nt seabeyond Nov 2014 #37
Omfg Starry Messenger Nov 2014 #48
The point was "What was Brown's mindset?" TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #51
Did you wake up this morning thinking you'd be shot to death Starry Messenger Nov 2014 #63
yes, they did it pretty damn brazenly. cali Nov 2014 #60
People were asking why the incident in the store is brought up TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #32
Actually the store is talked about, because the owner never pressed charges or said Brown stole Rex Nov 2014 #40
"People are hurt over this"? A young man is dead over this. suffragette Dec 2014 #148
To borrow a phrase from lawyers (or lawyer TV shows), you're assuming 'facts KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #33
I'm not alleging TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #38
You are evading both my analysis -- just b/c Johnson thought KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #42
Nothing according to this video footage of Brown. Rex Nov 2014 #56
Here's the (real) question. Why didn't Wilson say "You are under arrest" or give KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #65
Yeah that really brings it home right there. Wilson did not try to arrest either one Rex Nov 2014 #75
My theory about Wilson's real stream of consciousness (interspersed with facts in parenthesies): KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #92
Thank you. If he didnt steal anything whats the big deal? Chipala Nov 2014 #112
So, now you are saying that Johnson didn't see what was happening? TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #68
You're being willfully obtuse. One possible reason why Brown never displayed any KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #76
Read the testimony TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #84
I've read Volume 4 many times. Johnson says only that Brown took 'a handful'. Brown KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #94
They've been asked that question repeatedly in this very thread. Yet still no answer. The Guy Whitey Corngood Nov 2014 #146
Here is what I do know: OneGrassRoot Nov 2014 #39
I agree with that. TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #47
Exactly. I don't understand why that is so hard for grown adult to figure out. Rex Nov 2014 #49
It matters- to a defense loyalsister Nov 2014 #44
I'm more concerned with how the police think in that town. Lars39 Nov 2014 #45
excellent reply nt. BootinUp Nov 2014 #54
You make it sound like he walked right out of the store and enountered Wilson... hexola Nov 2014 #46
It would help if people actually read the testimony TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #50
Do you have a link to the testimony? Wella Nov 2014 #53
You'll want to look at Volume 4 of the GJ testimony. Here's a good link KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #83
Much obliged. Wella Nov 2014 #85
Sorry I didn't give you the link TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #118
Thanks. Wella Nov 2014 #119
Your OP is disingenuous, to say the least... Spazito Nov 2014 #52
Actually, I believe that both men were at fault TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #62
Well..... Spazito Nov 2014 #81
I would go one step further and say that this OP was done in KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #69
I completely agree... Spazito Nov 2014 #72
Actually, it was in response TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #74
Sure it was :sarcasm: - nt KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #77
Funny, you don't mention racism even once in your OP. Rex Nov 2014 #79
Anyone not believing that Wilson was 100% culpable has been accused of being a racist TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #88
You are correct! cpamomfromtexas Nov 2014 #110
indeed, but this poster may be clueless and not realize it noiretextatique Nov 2014 #128
No, it doesn't matter at all, and for many reasons. MineralMan Nov 2014 #55
Excellent post. Rex Nov 2014 #59
There are many odd things about what happened. MineralMan Nov 2014 #64
Me too. Rex Nov 2014 #70
B.I.N.G.O. WinkyDink Nov 2014 #107
No blood on the inside of the car? XemaSab Nov 2014 #66
Thanks, I had read there was no blood inside the SUV. Rex Nov 2014 #71
Exactly. It doesn't matter if any of those "if"s were real or not, he was killed for a non-capital uppityperson Nov 2014 #137
Just STOP. LeftOfWest Nov 2014 #58
O puleeze abelenkpe Nov 2014 #61
Some people demand a simple narrative. Smarmie Doofus Nov 2014 #73
Thank you. TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #82
How is Brown the "aggressor at the car" when Wilson was the one who pulled up, then backed up fast uppityperson Nov 2014 #138
What "behavior" earned a hail of bullets? The answer Is of course none so TheKentuckian Nov 2014 #141
no, you are not at all interested in michael's mindset. you're a troll. mike brown is dead because locdlib Nov 2014 #78
I have more posts than you do. TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #86
nobody gives a shit about your number of posts. what's that got to do with your fucked up topic? locdlib Nov 2014 #87
You would be better off putting me on ignore TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #89
you mean it would be better for you, cause i'm real good. you can't rationally explain locdlib Nov 2014 #93
"I have more posts than you do." mike dub Nov 2014 #114
The events leading up to Brown being stopped by Wilson are of no relevance. Maedhros Nov 2014 #90
Of course, it matters TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #96
Wilson did. [n/t] Maedhros Nov 2014 #97
Wilson did. eom uppityperson Nov 2014 #140
What happened on the bridge matters... Tsiyu Nov 2014 #95
No, I can't TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #98
Could it be a racial thing? n/t Tsiyu Nov 2014 #99
Both groups were white TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #108
I'm referring to the parties with "questionable mindsets." n/t Tsiyu Nov 2014 #135
Has it been proven in a court of law... smiley Nov 2014 #100
Teen-ager KT2000 Nov 2014 #102
Re-read Wilson's words. HIS mind-set is what interests me, as he deliberately hassled a person he WinkyDink Nov 2014 #104
YES because We must Defend the honor of the Ferguson Police force! BootinUp Nov 2014 #105
I can't answer many of your questions but elleng Nov 2014 #113
Only one DU Rec, B Calm Nov 2014 #120
Do you think I care that I haven't been absorbed into the DU borg? TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2014 #121
Bye B Calm Nov 2014 #122
"flat out denied the obvious" Then explain the obvious R B Garr Nov 2014 #123
bye noiretextatique Nov 2014 #130
"I'm giving the Wilson the benefit of the doubt as to what happened at the car" uppityperson Nov 2014 #139
2 now...and i can guess who they are noiretextatique Nov 2014 #129
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2014 #126
WTF?! nc4bo Nov 2014 #127
No one can say that Brown wasn't scared. logosoco Nov 2014 #131
^^^^^^^^^^^n/t truedelphi Nov 2014 #133
I don't believe Brown reached for the azmom Nov 2014 #136
You'll never understand. GeorgeGist Nov 2014 #134
and now texasmomma has taken umbrage and is, gasp, leaving. locdlib Nov 2014 #143
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