Indy wrote:This entire situation is crazy, but it probably shouldn't be. From the (limited) time I spent doing ride alongs, and having several law enforcement officers in my family, minorities (and especially black guys) are incredibly more likely to have a weapon drawn on them than anyone else. Even if there are 95% good guys in the department, it helps breed racism. Giving people "above the law" authority to operate around citizens calls to a select group of people, especially considering the poor pay for police officers. The same way the old say goes anyone who is crazy enough to run for president doesn't deserve to be president, I feel similar about many of people we let police our communities.
So, it’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.
Glad to know you haven't changed SDC.
statistics trumps anecdotes anytime. and i'm glad you are not a moderator, indy.
Re: Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:40 pm
by Dan H
Autopsy shows that Michael Brown was shot six times, none of them in the back. Wounds to his arms entered from the front, which would not have happened if his hands were up.
No info on tox screen or GSR on the clothes, but lack of wounds in the back makes that eyewitness testimony suspect. The witness account claiming to have seen Brown charge the police office is so far being backed up by the data.
Dan H wrote:Autopsy shows that Michael Brown was shot six times, none of them in the back. Wounds to his arms entered from the front, which would not have happened if his hands were up.
No info on tox screen or GSR on the clothes, but lack of wounds in the back makes that eyewitness testimony suspect. The witness account claiming to have seen Brown charge the police office is so far being backed up by the data.
An earlier version of this story referred to the federal autopsy as a "second autopsy." Counting the family and state autopsies, it would be a third autopsy.
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if it wasn’t bad for those invested in The Narrative why would they order a third autopsy?
Re: Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:04 pm
by Indy
Sorry Dan. Didn't see your post somehow.
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Re: Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:05 pm
by Indy
SDC wrote:
Indy wrote:
SDC wrote:
Indy wrote:This entire situation is crazy, but it probably shouldn't be. From the (limited) time I spent doing ride alongs, and having several law enforcement officers in my family, minorities (and especially black guys) are incredibly more likely to have a weapon drawn on them than anyone else. Even if there are 95% good guys in the department, it helps breed racism. Giving people "above the law" authority to operate around citizens calls to a select group of people, especially considering the poor pay for police officers. The same way the old say goes anyone who is crazy enough to run for president doesn't deserve to be president, I feel similar about many of people we let police our communities.
So, it’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.
Glad to know you haven't changed SDC.
statistics trumps anecdotes anytime. and i'm glad you are not a moderator, indy.
Your statistics quotes are meaningless. It has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
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Re: Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:14 am
by Mori Chu
What is this Narrative stuff? Nobody here has any narrative. We are just trying to discuss the story based on the information that is coming out.
An earlier version of this story referred to the federal autopsy as a "second autopsy." Counting the family and state autopsies, it would be a third autopsy.
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again
if it wasn’t bad for those invested in The Narrative why would they order a third autopsy?
The first was overseen by a town not currently trusted by its constituency, the second was done by a private physician at the family's request. I'm not sure it is needed, but it was clear from the Times article that the family autopsy didn't include all the evidence like the clothes.
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Re: Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:18 am
by LazarusLong
Just thinking about Indy the other day when I was at the Chuck Box in Tempe with a friend. I remember when a bunch of us gathered for lunch there once. SODC was living in Tempe,then ...
Re: Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:41 pm
by Indy
Good times Laz. I hadn't been there before or after. But just this weekend my wife asked if I had ever gone. I remembered that time, and just hours later was connected to Supe and the new site.
No matter how right or wrong the precipitating event was, the actions of the police afterward have been and continue to be atrocious. (As an aside I'm currently reading 'Rise of the Warrior Cop', which makes for an interesting historical perspective to all the nonsense currently going on).
Re: Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:23 pm
by Cap
It's incredible that someone can act that way when he knows it's being filmed. What could possibly make him think that pointing his gun right at the camera and saying "I will fucking kill you" is a good idea? It's almost like he was trying to become a YouTube star.
As for the other officer featured in the video, who acted like a sane, professional police officer, it almost seems like these days like that deserves some special commendation.
I also heard on CNN, contrary to the first autopsy result reported, that a second autopsy found that at least one bullet entered the arm back to front, which suggests he was shot either from behind or with his hands up.
