Unarmed Missouri teen shot by police sparks outrage

[seb]

There's a number of things going on: this zero tolerance policy of guns, no one is taking a moment to see if it's an actual gun, a toy, a cell phone or a hair dryer. And no one is stepping back to assess the situation - is this a child with a toy, did this person hear/understand what was said, could we have defused the situation differently? Everyone just jumps to conclusions without thinking. Remember we now live in a day when a five year old child gets suspended for crayon drawing of a gun at an art class, wearing an NRA shirt (or U.S. flag shirt), or kissing another child innocently. People are so quick to spring into action that no one uses their head - or basic common sense anymore.

And the fact that no one is stepping back to assess the situation or thinking is the problem. And to think that the people we have hired to supposedly protect us not doing those things is the scary part. I have known quiet a few cops in my lifetime and the one glaring fault that most had, was a lack of common sense, I used to tell some of them the reason they got the job was they checked NO on the application next to the question asking if they had common sense. Other faults they seemed to have: they seemed to like the power that came with the job, lied in court on a regular basis, stuck up for bad cops and seemed to enjoy the ability to hurt people and get away with it.
Right now we seem to have police that shoot first and ask questions later and unless we find a way to hold them accountable for their actions it will only get worse.

 

[Steinhauer]

If the officer was actually assaulted by Brown, he could legally shoot Brown BUT what if Brown handed up after assault and flee, could the beaten officer shoot him anyway?

What's your opinion?

was he fleeing the scene of a felonious assault after being ordered to stop?

It seems that thugs lack "common sense"

 

[whatdidyousay!]

A 19 year old woman was shot and killed by the San Jose police on 8/15/14 who thought she had a uzi when all she was holding was a 12volt Black n Decker drill. The person calling 911 said the woman was yelling she was going to shoot her family and he added "that she is bi polar and she says she has a machine gun, but it looks like a cordless drill to me." The police arrived told her to drop the weapon and when she didn't one of the cops shot her. I guess the police are going to have to give these idiots they give guns to a crash course in what a gun looks like and what a cordless drill looks like. Before I even heard what she was carrying I could tell from the picture it was a cordless drill. Is it me or are we hearing about cops killing someone who is unarmed almost weekly?

Some guy went to a mall and had his umbrella in his backpack and people where call 911 about a guy in the mall with a gun . Cop where all over the mall and could not find the 'gunman'. When the guy got home and turned on the TV he knew the cops where looking for him so he went back the mall to clear thing up and buy a new umbrella . That guy was lucky he was not was not shot.
Your life could be endanger when rain is in the forecast . :roll:

 

[diehardbiker]

Yeah there are guns that looks like ordinary umbrella, its been around since organized crimes and prohibition era.

Some guy went to a mall and had his umbrella in his backpack and people where call 911 about a guy in the mall with a gun . Cop where all over the mall and could not find the 'gunman'. When the guy got home and turned on the TV he knew the cops where looking for him so he went back the mall to clear thing up and buy a new umbrella . That guy was lucky he was not was not shot.
Your life could be endanger when rain is in the forecast . :roll:

 

[Steinhauer]

A Witness Conversation Unknowingly Captured at the Scene of the Ferguson Shooting is a Game-Changer

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Yeah there are guns that looks like ordinary umbrella, its been around since organized crimes and prohibition era.

I am not sure if the guy umbrella really looked like a gun , people thought it was a gun . A guy had a price scanner in his hand and he was beaten up b/c people thought it was a gun . You really need to be careful today what you carry in your hand or backpack .

 

[diehardbiker]

I am just saying that there are umbrella with built in rifle, it looks like normal umbrella, all user have to do is just aim the umbrella and pull trigger then walks away. They exists, just nobody knows who has them.

I am not sure if the guy umbrella really looked like a gun , people thought it was a gun . A guy had a price scanner in his hand and he was beaten up b/c people thought it was a gun . You really need to be careful today what you carry in your hand or backpack .

 

[ChicagoBlue2]

I am just saying that there are umbrella with built in rifle, it looks like normal umbrella, all user have to do is just aim the umbrella and pull trigger then walks away. They exists, just nobody knows who has them.

Yes, and usually they have a certain kind of poison that'll kill a person within days. Forgot the name of it, but it came from an umbrella, and there's no reversing the poison's effects.

 

[Calvin]

It's easy to make homemade weapons out of anything.

 

[sonocativo]

I am not sure if the guy umbrella really looked like a gun , people thought it was a gun . A guy had a price scanner in his hand and he was beaten up b/c people thought it was a gun . You really need to be careful today what you carry in your hand or backpack .

Hmmmmmmmmmm, is that so?

 

[sonocativo]

It's easy to make homemade weapons out of anything.

yep, 2 pieces of pipe that slide over one another, a cap with a nail and shotgun shell...instant sawed off shotgun
$20 at the local home depot

* except the shot shell, at the local walmart

 

[diehardbiker]

Yeah, I made homemade cannon, tried shoot pesky bird and it almost killed it. LOL its not hard!

my cannon has few different barrel sizes, interchangeable.

It's easy to make homemade weapons out of anything.

 

[Steinhauer]

You can make any firearm known to man with a 3D printer http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...al-gun-is-a-beautiful-45-caliber-m1911-pistol

 

[Jiro]

If the officer was actually assaulted by Brown, he could legally shoot Brown BUT what if Brown handed up after assault and flee, could the beaten officer shoot him anyway?

What's your opinion?

if there was considerable amount of time between Brown's surrender and being shot by officer... then it would be a murder

but..... most cop shootings are in officer's favor.

 

[sonocativo]

Just in...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/u...shot-at-least-6-times.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

 

[Jiro]

Yes, and usually they have a certain kind of poison that'll kill a person within days. Forgot the name of it, but it came from an umbrella, and there's no reversing the poison's effects.

Georgi Markov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bulgarian umbrella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[seb]

He wasn't shot, he was executed by the police. They must of been real scared to open fire at an unarmed man and shoot him that many times. All I can say is I hope the family gets a lot of money from the city, no it won't bring their son back, but it might cause the city to retrain their police force so they don't execute another unarmed person.

 

[Steinhauer]

entry, re-entry and exit wounds - meaning he could have been shot 2 or 3 times. ... all in the front of his body. Nothing indicates he was running away from the officer when he was shot, like the witnesses indicated.

Was he rushing at the Officer when he was shot? Were his hands really in the air? I notice he was shot in the hand, as if it were by his side, and not in the air.

Would this be the reason his family wants a different autopsy? Because this one was very revealing ...

 

[authentic]

He is huge guy who running away very slow, and it should not be too difficult for cop to chase and shoot his legs, right?

 

[Jiro]

entry, re-entry and exit wounds - meaning he could have been shot 2 or 3 times. ... all in the front of his body. Nothing indicates he was running away from the officer when he was shot, like the witnesses indicated.

it doesn't work like that.

"he was shot 3x" means he was shot exactly 3x... as in 3 bullets

Was he rushing at the Officer when he was shot? Were his hands really in the air? I notice he was shot in the hand, as if it were by his side, and not in the air.

easy - where and how he was shot by looking at the wound and tracing the bullet entry to determine an angle of trajectory and such.

Would this be the reason his family wants a different autopsy? Because this one was very revealing ...

if independent autopsy backs up St. Louis County medical examiner's finding... it would not bode well for Brown.