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In reply to the discussion: How I know you hate the Mojave bull shark. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)that last reply was not productive at all.
My position, my view, sorta backed up by DOJ is that Mike Brown's own bad actions and bad choices were what killed him.
I try to put myself in each person's shoes. First, put myself in Mike's shoes. Which is very tough. I cannot ever see myself doing the things he did. Right away he either seems like a bad person, or a good person doing bad things. How can anybody deny the bad things? He attacked a person who was armed. That's what got him killed.
Then I put myself in Wilson's shoes. I can easily see myself shooting a large person who is attacking me. Damned straight. Don't want to get killed, then don't attack me.
Again, my own view is that it is okay for the police to shoot some people, even black people, even unarmed people. Not everything the police do is good, but not everything they do is bad either. You mix the good with the bad and that seems very irrational to me. Especially if you tell a dishonest half story, like that link with the pictures did with Mike Brown. That tends to invalidate all of the other pictures there.