Ferguson, Missouri

[Shadow00]

taser a running guy from behind?
Do you think that US cops are Sniper Elites?
He shot 12 bullets (a LOT more accurate) and only 6 hit. That's 50% hit rate with gun.
Aka around 0.1% hit rate with taser

[Boxorino]

[Shadowstar1922]

I don't know how shooting someone who is running away from you is self defense but okay.

Darren Wilson considers tasers uncomfortable therefore he didn't have one to use instead of his gun...

You can use a taser against only one guy, those were 2.
Please do the math, I'm sure its very easy, even for my little sister.

the second guy wasn't shot though :/

Can't chase two guys running towards 2 opposite directions at the same time.

the focus was on Micheal Brown because he was reported to have struggled. His friend stood by and watched.

[Shadow00]

According to above video, if the cop told the guy to stop and he didn't, then as far as I'm concerned he could've shot all he wanted.
Its a clear case of a criminal facing heavy-ish charges (theft+assault of police officer) running away.

[Tycoon]

Love your views tho "Lol you can't prove it so you lie lalalalalalala I'm a pacifist death to all cops"

reviewing the topic and i love your putting words in other people's mouths!!!

[Shadow00]

Love your views tho "Lol you can't prove it so you lie lalalalalalala I'm a pacifist death to all cops"

reviewing the topic and i love your putting words in other people's mouths!!!

Why thanks its a necessary skill in today's world.

[Shadowstar1922]

According to above video, if the cop told the guy to stop and he didn't, then as far as I'm concerned he could've shot all he wanted.
Its a clear case of a criminal facing heavy-ish charges (theft+assault of police officer) running away.

Okay, and when Wilson fired the gun, Brown turned around and put his hands up. That means you stop shooting your gun, you charge forward with caution and put the guy in custody. Not continuously firing. Thats how they are trained.

[Shadow00]

According to above video, if the cop told the guy to stop and he didn't, then as far as I'm concerned he could've shot all he wanted.
Its a clear case of a criminal facing heavy-ish charges (theft+assault of police officer) running away.

Okay, and when Wilson fired the gun, Brown turned around and put his hands up. That means you stop shooting your gun, you charge forward with caution and put the guy in custody. Not continuously firing. Thats how they are trained.

Because no matter what the forensics expert says, when a guy runs from you then suddenly turns to face you you are at some degree expecting to get shot at by a gun he pulled, or so he could've thought.
After all if I were a cop and I found this guy during my shift that
A)has just shoplifted
B) tries to take my gun from me
C) runs away
Then yeah I'd pretty much expect him to be dangerous, no matter the age.

[Tycoon]

michael brown case evidence

[Shadowstar1922]

michael brown case evidence

I'm going to evaluate the shit out of that.

But Vox said some really interesting things. Here's the article, http://www.vox.com/2014/11/25/7281165/d ... story-side

I'm going to copy and paste it here. warning: vulgar content.

"We've finally heard from Officer Darren Wilson.

Wilson had been publicly silent since the events of August 9, when he shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. And, even as the grand jury announced its decision not to indict him, he remained silent. He had his attorneys release a statement on his behalf.

But on Monday night, St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch released the evidence given to the grand jury, including the interview police did with Wilson in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. And so we got to read, for the first time, Wilson's full, immediate account of his altercation with Brown.

And it is unbelievable.

I mean that in the literal sense of the term: "difficult or impossible to believe." But I want to be clear here. I'm not saying Wilson is lying. I'm not saying his testimony is false. I am saying that the events, as he describes them, are simply bizarre. His story is difficult to believe.

The story Wilson tells goes like this:

At about noon on August 9th, Wilson hears on the radio that there's a theft in progress at the Ferguson Market. The suspect is a black male in a black shirt.

Moments later, Wilson sees two young black men walking down the yellow stripe in the center of the street. He pulls over. "Hey guys, why don't you walk on the sidewalk?" They refuse. "We're almost at our destination," one of them replies. Wilson tries again. "But what's wrong with the sidewalk?" he asks.

And then things get weird.

Brown's response to "what's wrong with the sidewalk?", as recorded by Wilson, is "fuck what you have to say." Remember, Wilson is a uniformed police officer, in a police car, and Brown is an 18-year-old kid who just committed a robbery. And when asked to use the sidewalk, Wilson says Brown replied, "Fuck what you have to say."

WILSON SAYS BROWN REPLIED, "FUCK WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY."

Wilson backs his car up and begins to open the door. "Hey, come here," he said to the kid who just cursed at him. He says Brown replied, "What the fuck you gonna do?" And then Brown, in Wilson's telling, slams the car door closed. Wilson tries to open the door again, tells Brown to get back, and then Brown leans into the vehicle and begins punching him.

Let's take a breath and recap. Wilson sees two young black men walking in the middle of the street. He pulls over and politely asks them to use the sidewalk. They refuse. He asks again, still polite. Brown tells Wilson — again, a uniformed police officer in a police car — "fuck what you have to say." Wilson stops his car, tries to get out, and Brown slams the car door on him and then begins punching him through the open window.

What happens next is the most unbelievable moment in the narrative. And so it's probably best that I just quote Wilson's account at length on it.

"I was doing the, just scrambling, trying to get his arms out of my face and him from grabbing me and everything else. He turned to his...if he's at my vehicle, he turned to his left and handed the first subject. He said, "here, take these." He was holding a pack of — several packs of cigarillos which was just, what was stolen from the Market Store was several packs of cigarillos. He said, "here, hold these" and when he did that I grabbed his right arm trying just to control something at that point. Um, as I was holding it, and he came around, he came around with his arm extended, fist made, and went like that straight at my face with his...a full swing from his left hand." ~Daren Wilson

So Brown is punching inside the car. Wilson is scrambling to deflect the blows, to protect his face, to regain control of the situation. And then Brown stops, turns to his left, says to his friend, "Here, hold these," and hands him the cigarillos stolen from Ferguson Market. Then he turns back to Wilson and, with his left hand now freed from holding the contraband goods, throws a haymaker at Wilson.

Every bullshit detector in me went off when I read that passage. Which doesn't mean that it didn't happen exactly the way Wilson describes. But it is, again, hard to imagine. Brown, an 18-year-old kid holding stolen goods, decides to attack a cop and, while attacking him, stops, hands his stolen goods to his friend, and then returns to the beatdown. It reads less like something a human would do and more like a moment meant to connect Brown to the robbery.

Wilson next recounts his thought process as he reached for a weapon. He considered using his mace, but at such close range, the mace might get in his eyes, too. He doesn't carry a taser with a fireable cartridge, but even if he did, "it probably wouldn't have hit [Brown] anywhere". Wilson couldn't reach his baton or his flashlight. So he went for his gun.

Brown sees him go for the gun. And he replies: "You're too much of a fucking pussy to shoot me."

"YOU'RE TOO MUCH OF A FUCKING PUSSY TO SHOOT ME."

Again, stop for a moment and think about that. Brown is punching Wilson, sees the terrified cop reaching for his gun, and says "You're too much of a fucking pussy to shoot me." He dares him to shoot."