Like a judge, I tend to believe the more credible witnesses.

Wouldnt a judge take into account that the cop has incentive to lie?


Which witnesses do you not find credible and why?

These types of situations always play out the same way. 1. There is the outrage. 2. Civil rights leader grandstanding. 3. False equivocation from defenders of the perpetrator 4. The inevitable call for calm. 5 Discussion and Analysis from the conservative and liberal media. 6. The return to "normalcy".
This is social injustice 101. This appears to be an injustice but there are far other injustices inflicted upon African Americans. I'm not trying to minimize this but the underlying conditions which allow for this to happen are of greater concern. There are a certain sector of Americans that argue that racism doesn't exist or even if they allow for racism will go out of their way to always disprove individual instances of Racism. That's the Fox News approach. To a man they will admit there is racism in the U.S but they never quite know when it occurs. Even when presented with facts that are irrefutable, they'll dissent. The underlying conditions have to change if this is going to be eradicated.

Which witnesses do you not find credible and why?

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

Steve...this seems eerily similar to blind faith in that sack of dogshit George Zimmerman ...I'm sure you have come to realize you were dead wrong on that also....

What gets me most about this whole story, was the outrage in the black community after the video of the punk (from the store he robbed minutes before the shooting) was released. Oh, how they hated to have their precious, innocent victim, exposed as the thug, punk, criminal he really was. nothing new about it though. How often do they want to tell the press what a good kid their son was and as a Police Officer, you recognize the gang tattoos and find out he has a rap sheet a mile long. But point it out to them and they lose their minds.

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

Bottom line- Store owners, Police officers and society in general, is better off the punk is dead. One look at that store video is all you need. That kid was never going to be a contributing member of society.

I like how you state the officer's version as fact.

He had never been arrested.

He had never been arrested.

I think people were upset about all the secrecy leading up to that release...almost as if shoplifting =shot 6 times is a reasonable outcome .

Don't let facts get in the way of blatant racism, Nas. I wish BF would ban this twat.

Did he really call that tax evading hillbilly a " law abiding citizen"?

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

I don't want him to get banned and by now it's clear this type of thing isn't ban worthy. Steve fishes for responses. Ultimately his opinion doesn't mean much.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

You know the drill, JORR. He is a brainwashed, socialized police officer. Thug crimes = bad. White crimes = not bad. God help him if he ever had to think for himself.

Some people would argue that the white collar criminal destroys more lives than that drug dealer or violent criminal ever could.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

You are a clown...I'm convinced this is an act . So a guy robs a bank with a gun and steals 12k ...then some scumbag steals 300 peoples pension with a couple swipes of a pen...you seriously think the 12k thief deserves more time?

You are a clown...I'm convinced this is an act . So a guy robs a bank with a gun and steals 12k ...then some scumbag steals 300 peoples pension with a couple swipes of a pen...you seriously think the 12k thief deserves more time?

So, is the officer's story that he shot Brown because Brown had tried (and failed) to take his weapon?


He's fucked then right?

According to his friend the officer story is the kid tried to take his gun and it went off inside the car. After running 40 feet away the kid stopped when the officer said "FREEZE" and started taunting him. Then the 300 lb kid sprinted at the officer.

Considering that his body was about 40 feet from the police truck I'm guessing that the kid had to be more than 40 feet away from the truck before he decided to run back towards the officer.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

So, is the officer's story that he shot Brown because Brown had tried (and failed) to take his weapon?


He's fucked then right?

Assuming the story is even partially correct, I think it's safe to say the kid made some very stupid decisions too. Now they just have to determine if it was worthy of a bullet or bullets. I'm not real versed on what protocol is in that situation, but I would have to guess they're trained to use mace or a taser or something before lethal force.

Assuming the story is even partially correct, I think it's safe to say the kid made some very stupid decisions too. Now they just have to determine if it was worthy of a bullet or bullets. I'm not real versed on what protocol is in that situation, but I would have to guess they're trained to use mace or a taser or something before lethal force.