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Your pseudonym is confusing in that I don't know if you are male or female. But if you are a male, and if you are strolling down the middle of a street, or doing some other minor thing, and a male cop drives up and tells you to stop doing it, how would you respond?And yes, jaywalking on a residential street was a minor thing.
I would be inclined to agree with you had I not seen the video of "Big Mike" Brown in the convenience store.After reading some 139 posts in this thread, I conclude that there is too much speculation coming from people who were not on the scene and have no logical basis for their interpretations of what actually happened other than pure conjecture.
Wait until ALL the evidence has been presented and examined before you come to the likely well founded conclusion that the shooting and killing of Michael Brown was justified.
What really angers me is how some of these witnesses deliberately lie.
Then the people who only see things within the lens of race believe their crap.
Then the other racists fuel their anger, riots happen, destruction occurs, etc.
A lot of this crap happened because witnesses lie and people see what they want to see.
The evidence does not lie. However, it won't matter to some.
Moral of the story is........"Nigga's gonna nig".
I remember years ago......retired NYPD.......back in the late 70' s and I was a teenager and he used to say, "What do yu expect.....these people are only one generation removed from the tree's"!!!
All these years later, when I think of that I laugh my balls off.
And lets call a spade a spade......this fat kid wasn't going to make 20 years old anyway.
I don't appreciate the racism, skooker. Every group has its bad apples. There is black trash, and there is white trash. I know of many black people who are damned good people to be around. One of my friends is black, and homeschooled just like me. Now he has a bright future in dentistry.
Please don't share such hatred here. It makes other people who share some of your views on this issue look bad. As for the black community, there is the good and there is the bad. They need to focus on the family. Fathers need to be there. Wait with sex until marriage, be prudent with your money, and give a damn about improving yourself and making a better future for yourself and your children. I don't care about your skin color, but the content of your character. And if you show that you care about self-improvement, and you give a damn, others will certainly give a damn, too.
Everyone needs to have an active discussion on how to solve the problems within the black community. You shouldn't be barred from the discussion if you don't have dark-colored skin. I think we can discuss this without showing hatred for one another.
Rotagilla the broadness of which you are interpreting your statute permits situations that violate Tennessee v Garner, (can't shoot an unarmed fleeing suspect in the back).
If Michael Brown was defending himself, then his actions do not consitute felonies as he does have the right to self defense. That would make the shooting not justified even under your larger theory.
I'm not "interpreting" anything. There it is in black and white...Missouri statutes.
Brown committed 2 felonies. It was a good, legal shoot.
I'm telling you that Wilson attacked Brown, then no felonies were committed. Even if there were felonies, the officer is not permitted under the US Constitution to shoot an unarmed fleeing man.
Your pseudonym is confusing in that I don't know if you are male or female. But if you are a male, and if you are strolling down the middle of a street, or doing some other minor thing, and a male cop drives up and tells you to stop doing it, how would you respond?And yes, jaywalking on a residential street was a minor thing.
Jesus Christ!!! Walking down the middle of the road isn't jaywalking!!!
It's blocking traffic. Had they been crossing the road Officer Wilson wouldnt have said a damn thing to them because they would have been out of the street in a matter of seconds.
Dirt Nap and his buddy argued with Wilson about being in the street.
It was nothing more than flaunting their disdain for authority.
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Apartment complexes generate a lot more traffic than say houses.
Perhaps you could find some of the drivers that Brown and Co. were impeding?
Brain, it depends.....how many of those apartment dwellers have cars?
Not sure where you are from, but here people walk on the side of the street or the sidewalk.
Perhaps you could find some of the drivers that Brown and Co. were impeding?
That's not how ordinances work. When a violation occurs you don't have to go find people it directly impacted.
What a childish evasion.
Brain, it depends.....how many of those apartment dwellers have cars?
apartment complexes have more density of population than single family subdivision homes.
A sensible person can extrapolate that apartment complexes with several hundred families in one complex will have more vehicles in a smaller area than an equal number of families in single story, single family homes.
Save all the "maybe this"..maybe that".."what if"... facts and reality always trump hypotheticals....
Perhaps you could find some of the drivers that Brown and Co. were impeding?
That's not how ordinances work. When a violation occurs you don't have to go find people it directly impacted.
What a childish evasion.
Brain, it depends.....how many of those apartment dwellers have cars?
apartment complexes have more density of population than single family subdivision homes.
A sensible person can extrapolate that apartment complexes with several hundred families in one complex will have more vehicles in a smaller area than an equal number of families in single story, single family homes.
Save all the "maybe this"..maybe that".."what if"... facts and reality always trump hypotheticals....
Population density does not always directly correlate to automobile ownership. Especially in an urban area that has public transportation.
You're the one deciding the facts. There are tons of "maybes" in this case, and you can't stand it.
Not sure where you are from, but here people walk on the side of the street or the sidewalk.
Not sure where you're from, but there are many kinds of roads and streets.
People don't walk down a four-lane, two-direction street. They stay on the sidewalks.
People don't walk down a four-lane, one-direction highway. They stay off it completely as pedestrians, or walk the smallest distance possible well on the side.
People don't walk down two-lane, two-direction rural roads, even if there are no sidewalks. They stay on the side of the road.
People have been known to walk, and play games, in the middle of two-direction residential streets, in speed-controlled zones. These streets don't generally get that much traffic, and traffic goes slow enough and can be seen soon enough, for a pedestrian to get out of the way.
Again, I don't know where you're from, but take a look at the traffic flow and pedestrian behavior around you.
Your pseudonym is confusing in that I don't know if you are male or female. But if you are a male, and if you are strolling down the middle of a street, or doing some other minor thing, and a male cop drives up and tells you to stop doing it, how would you respond?And yes, jaywalking on a residential street was a minor thing.
I don't know how a name with "chickie" in it can be confusing, but I'm a girl.
It doesn't matter, however. I've been told to move my car by a cop who was clearly not in the mood to be argued with, and I didn't argue. I moved my damn car. For my own health and safety, that is the prudent thing to do.
Again, if anyone wants to bother to go back and read, someone said that none of this would have happened if Brown hadn't just gotten out of the road. I would submit, on further reflection, that we have no evidence that he wasn't getting out of the road, but that he wasn't doing it fast enough to suit Wilson.
But my counter argument was that, if we're going to blame this solely on one person, we could just as easily say that this wouldn't have happened if Wilson hadn't stopped to yell at Brown for such a minor thing.
And my point all along is that it takes two people, making their own choices, to make this unfortunate situation.
Jesus Christ!!! Walking down the middle of the road isn't jaywalking!!!
It's blocking traffic. Had they been crossing the road Officer Wilson wouldnt have said a damn thing to them because they would have been out of the street in a matter of seconds.
Dirt Nap and his buddy argued with Wilson about being in the street.
It was nothing more than flaunting their disdain for authority.
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Apartment complexes generate a lot more traffic than say houses.
HereWeGo, you are clearly deciding what Wilson would have or wouldn't have done based on nothing but your own feelings on the subject. Perhaps you could find some of the drivers that Brown and Co. were impeding?
Brain, it depends.....how many of those apartment dwellers have cars?
So what you are saying is blacks wouldn't fight with cops in the first place if they didn't try to make them obey the law?
You accuse me of speculation then do it yourself in your next sentence.
And it doesnt matter if there were any cars or not. When a cop tells you to get out of the street you do it.
After reading some 139 posts in this thread, I conclude that there is too much speculation coming from people who were not on the scene and have no logical basis for their interpretations of what actually happened other than pure conjecture.
Wait until ALL the evidence has been presented and examined before you come to the likely well founded conclusion that the shooting and killing of Michael Brown was justified.
I drive everyday, people don't walk down the middle of the road. That would be stupid. And it is illegal. You can't fault the cop for doing his job.
So what you are saying is blacks wouldn't fight with cops in the first place if they didn't try to make them obey the law?
Number one, I didn't say anything about the race of either of them.
Number two, this undoubtedly would have been averted if Brown had simply moved quickly out of the road.
Number three, it is undoubtedly equally true that this would have been averted if Wilson hadn't stopped to tell these guys to get out of the road.
