Police admit Michael Brown shot while running away

[Luddly Neddite]

8211 Police Admit Michael Brown Was Shot At While He Was Running Away

Ever since the autopsy of Michael Brown was made public, the racist right wing and Police State apologists have been crowing about how Brown was shot in the front and not in the back as he was fleeing the police. Eyewitnesses have stated, repeatedly, that Brown was shot in the back and then turned with his arms raised before being gunned down. Since the autopsy seems to contradict this, the racists and apologists have latched on to the report to declare that everything is fine, nothing to see here, move along. Brown was just another ****** “thug” that got what was coming to him.

But a little nugget of information seems to have slipped by the conversation: Officer Wilson did shoot at Brown as he was running away. Via The New York Times (by way of LGF):

As Officer Wilson got out of his car, the men were running away. The officer fired his weapon but did not hit anyone, according to law enforcement officials.

More at the link.

 

[dilloduck]

shooting "at" isn't the same as shooting and I figured that out without even having to go to your link

 

[R.D.]

I tried to read that garbage but quit after this....

This is a problem for the racist/apologist narrative that Brown was killed while beating up a cop....

Making up stuff

 

[Bush92]

So the cop just pulled up and blasted away? Really?

 

[Rozman]

I guess that explains why the autopsy report disagreed.All what six of them now?

 

[Rozman]

good job Luddly...You cracked the case.

 

[Bush92]

We are to believe that the gentle angel lummox, after throttling a store clerk moments before, was just walking down the middle of the streets with his fathers blunts and his bag of candy, and mean ol'Whitey Wilson just opened up on him for no reason. Media are criminal in their reporting.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

You RW racists can twist and shout all you want, I just posted what the cops said.

 

[protectionist]

Interesting part of this is that even if Wilson had shot Brown square in the back, while he was running away, that would be entirely LEGAL, and proper under US law. So rather than have a slew of posts in this thread, we could have just one saying "So What ?"

Missouri Statute 563.046. 1. A law enforcement officer need not retreat or desist from efforts to effect the arrest, or from efforts to prevent the escape from custody, of a person he reasonably believes to have committed an offense because of resistance or threatened resistance of the arrestee. In addition to the use of physical force authorized under other sections of this chapter, he is, subject to the provisions of subsections 2 and 3, justified in the use of such physical force as he reasonably believes is immediately necessary to effect the arrest or to prevent the escape from custody.

Also :
While there is no national statute outlining police use of deadly force, there are national standards, established by a pair of 1980s US supreme court decisions.David Klinger, an associate professor in the department of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri–St Louis and a former officer with the Los Angeles police department, said there are two permissible circumstances in which an officer can use lethal force.

1. Constitutionally, a police officer can shoot a suspect who is threatening the life of the officer, a fellow officer or a member of the public, said Klinger, a use-of-force expert. This is known as the “defence of life” standard.
2. An officer can also shoot a fleeing suspect if the officer believes the suspect has committed a violent felony and his or her escape would pose a significant and serious threat, he said.

Brown fits the # 2 item here, to a T.

Garner vs. Tennessee (1985)

Graham vs. Conner (1989)

 

[deltex1]

Luddly is a dud.

 

[fbj]

Interesting part of this is that even if Wilson had shot Brown square in the back, while he was running away, that would be entirely LEGAL, and proper under US law. So rather than have a slew of posts in this thread, we could have just one saying "So What ?"

Why is that legal?

 

[Bush92]

Perhaps Brown was on his way home to have biscuits and mustard. Cop just blazed away for no reason. My, my, my,...perhaps the prosecution can play the retardation card to try lynch officer Wilson.

 

[Bush92]

I have heard rumors that even on his way home after robbing blunts for daddy and a bag of candy for himself, he stopped and picked some flowers for his mom. How stupid are the news media and liberal excuse peddlers? This guy was a thug life shit bag. Took a bullet in the grape. Better than paying for his upkeep in prison...which is where he was heading someday.

 

[Missourian]

Interesting part of this is that even if Wilson had shot Brown square in the back, while he was running away, that would be entirely LEGAL, and proper under US law. So rather than have a slew of posts in this thread, we could have just one saying "So What ?"

Why is that legal?

Tennessee v. Garner

 

[Toronado3800]

If I heard from the janitor interview right the cop fired a warning shot, Brown stopped, turned around and began closing on the cop then got shot up.

What I am thinking is,

-the cop may have been happy to shoot Brown after getting his face beat in.

-brown gave him the excuse by closing on him. If I REMEMBER the janitor did not say charged but we will see.

-brown should not have been wrestling with the cops. They say stop and you stop.

-That kids poor mother.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

8211 Police Admit Michael Brown Was Shot At While He Was Running Away

Ever since the autopsy of Michael Brown was made public, the racist right wing and Police State apologists have been crowing about how Brown was shot in the front and not in the back as he was fleeing the police. Eyewitnesses have stated, repeatedly, that Brown was shot in the back and then turned with his arms raised before being gunned down. Since the autopsy seems to contradict this, the racists and apologists have latched on to the report to declare that everything is fine, nothing to see here, move along. Brown was just another ****** “thug” that got what was coming to him.

But a little nugget of information seems to have slipped by the conversation: Officer Wilson did shoot at Brown as he was running away. Via The New York Times (by way of LGF):

As Officer Wilson got out of his car, the men were running away. The officer fired his weapon but did not hit anyone, according to law enforcement officials.

More at the link.

I'm sure it's like this in other places besides New Jersey, but here there's a thing called insulting an police officer. It doesn't take much, if anyone has ever been to New Jersey. But they get insulted over silly stuff. If the speed limit is 55 and you go 60, no problem. But if you go 65 then you're "insulting them".

Since the Ferguson P.D. is acting like a cat that just doesn't have enough sand in the litter box, I'm thinking that Michael Brown was immature enough to get into a physical altercation with Darren Wilson and Wilson got out of his car and tried to subdue him. That failing, he still had the gun in his hand and pointed it at Brown and Dorian Johnson.

Then I think that Brown and Johnson did what boys do when they get into trouble and they tried to run. Wilson was "insulted" by losing control and he snapped, and shot Brown.

Sounds like he winged him in the arm and then hit him 5 more times when the kid turned around. Shit like this happens in seconds, not minutes.

Anyone can snap, but a police officer is trained to handle irrational situations. At least they should be.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

If I heard from the janitor interview right the cop fired a warning shot, Brown stopped, turned around and began closing on the cop then got shot up.

What I am thinking is,

-the cop may have been happy to shoot Brown after getting his face beat in.

-brown gave him the excuse by closing on him. If I REMEMBER the janitor did not say charged but we will see.

-brown should not have been wrestling with the cops. They say stop and you stop.

-That kids poor mother.

"getting his face beat in"

LOL

Here we go again. Just as we saw with gz/Travon, by the time this subject is done, the nutters will have this poor hero cop will have been permanent maimed because the giant monster career criminal Brown ripped his face off.

Or worse.

OTOH, if Michael Brown had been white and the cop black, it would be the other way around.

SMH

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Interesting part of this is that even if Wilson had shot Brown square in the back, while he was running away, that would be entirely LEGAL, and proper under US law. So rather than have a slew of posts in this thread, we could have just one saying "So What ?"

Why is that legal?

It isn't. He's full of shit. Even Ron Paul thinks so.

Police Have No Right to Shoot Someone Running Away

"""As noted previously, that case went before the Supreme Court a decade later, resulting in the 1985 Tennessee v. Garner ruling in which the Court held that “The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable.” This was a rejection of the “Any Felony Rule” under which officers in many states, including Tennessee, were authorized to use deadly force to stop a fleeing or resisting suspect."""

The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Police Have No Right to Shoot Someone Running Away

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Interesting part of this is that even if Wilson had shot Brown square in the back, while he was running away, that would be entirely LEGAL, and proper under US law. So rather than have a slew of posts in this thread, we could have just one saying "So What ?"

Why is that legal?

Tennessee v. Garner

Another idiot who can't read:

Tennessee v. Garner ruling in which the Court held that “The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable.”

 

[Peach]

shooting "at" isn't the same as shooting and I figured that out without even having to go to your link

ADDICTINGINFO? As credible as 'godlikeproductions' I skipped reading it.