On 8/27/14 2:53 AM, jps wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:22:31 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:26:04 -0700, jps wrote:

Witnesses have the cop 20 - 25 feet away. Cops are not given
permission by MO law to fire on a suspect without their lives being
threatened. This was murder.

I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's a bad
source.

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I don't know where you're getting information either, but it's a bad
source. The LEO called Brown to his car for questioning. Brown
responded by punching the cop in the face and tried to grab his gun. A
shot was fired in the ensuing struggle. Brown then fled on foot and
at some point turned around. Everything beyond that is speculation
and conjecture.

Except witnesses are saying that the cop and the kid were 20 - 25 feet
away from one another when the cop fired the kill shots.

If the witnesses are backed up by cell phone footage, the cop is going
to have a hard time explaining how he felt danger for his life against
an unarmed man who had already been hit by several bullets.

The last shot entered the skull from the top of the head, meaning he
was leaning forward, about to fall.

Ugly. No one should be executed like that, even if the cop was
punched in the face.

If he comes away unscathed, there will certainly be hell to pay.



We don't even have a handle in this country of just how many people are
shot by the police each year.

The unknown number of people killed in police-involved shootings each
year, as FiveThirtyEight reports:

Efforts to keep track of “justifiable police homicides” are beset
by systemic problems. “Nobody that knows anything about the SHR puts
credence in the numbers that they call ‘justifiable homicides,’” when
used as a proxy for police killings, said David Klinger, an associate
professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of
Missouri who specializes in policing and the use of deadly force. And
there’s no governmental effort at all to record the number of
unjustifiable homicides by police. If Brown’s homicide is found to be
unjustifiable, it won’t show up in these statistics.

Four per cent is the percentage of American law enforcement agencies
that report any police-involved shootings to the FBI’s database -- 700
out of a total of 17,000, according to USA Today. These agencies only
record so-called "justifiable homicides," or incidents in which an armed
suspect was shot by police. All in all, we're left with a reporting
system that tells us very little about how many people are killed by
police, and nothing about those killed in an unjust fashion.