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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. === 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. |
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