BoatBanter.com - View Single Post

F*O*A*D

On 8/23/14 8:25 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:18:39 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

I bet those last flurry of shots took less than 2 seconds with very
little thinking between the first and last shot

I have the feeling there was "little thinking" going on during any part
of the shooting.

Considering someone can close on you at about 15-20 feet per second,
there is not a lot of time for complex thought.

Two of my old newspaper buddies from the Kansas City Star who run their
own papers now in two small Missouri cities, one just south of St.
Louis, told me in emails that racism is still a big problem in some of
the police departments in that state, and hasn't changed much in the
decades since we all roamed the state as reporters. But I have no
first-hand info on this.

I remember a couple of years ago when the FBI reported from its own
internal investigations that of the 600 fatal shootings its agents had
committed over some then recent period of time, all 600 were
"justified." That made a lot of people laugh.

CNN had an interesting factoid the other day. This is the first police
shooting in at least 20 years.
I imagine if Holder is going to find anything it will be some general
impression of the police department, not this particular incident.
Why do they always pick a thug to try to make a martyr out of?
I am sure there are far more egregious examples of police malfeasance
out there.,

The first police shooting in 20 years in Ferguson? That's not
surprising. It's a pretty small city and probably has more problems with
property crimes than murders.