Best Posts in Thread: No indictment for officer in Brown shooting

He was 18 years old, 6'5" and 300 pounds, hardly a "kid". I don't understand why it's so hard for so many people to just follow orders given by the police. He took it further than not obeying the orders of a police officer by attacking a police officer. His "bad kid day" is better labeled as thuggish behavior....thuggish behavior will get you killed. I have no problem with Brown not walking around today. I'm sure you would have a different opinion if he was up in your face ready to fight.

The kid that had the toy gun was waving around an unmarked bb gun in a public area. The police told him to put the gun down, he decided to pull it out and start aiming at people. Are the police supposed to wait until the kid shoots what could be a real gun before taking action? Are they supposed to be able to read minds and know the gun was a toy? They were working under the "serve and protect". I'm curious where the parents were during the 12 year old's idiotic behavior.

It's very very simple: if the police tell you to do something DO IT! Deal with the legalities of their actions later. I have had several interactions with the police in my life and somehow I have managed to not get shot during any of those encounters. Blacks might think this is a miracle of white privilege but all it really is just the fact that I have the ability to shut up, follow directions and NOT resist arrest.

I'm not saying there isn't police abuse. There certainly is, but this Brown shooting is not one of them. One thing I agree with the Brown family here is that every single police officer in the country should have a body camera on them at all times. However, blacks certainly aren't helping their cause by burning buildings, looting and popping off shots during their "protests". They need to figure out and deal with the fact that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of the crime in the US (and it's not them getting caught more often than other races). It's a complex problem that will have no simple solutions.

 

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I wonder if they realize what the consequence for their son's actions of attacking a police office is? He was shot inside the police car. Why was he reaching into the police car? I have to believe the police officer on this one. Blood results show he was high and video evidence showed that he had just committed a strong arm robbery moments before the confrontation with the police officer (I'm sure he thought he was getting busted for his crimes and decided to fight instead of facing the consequences for his actions). Do the parents care about the consequences for those actions?

If you attack a police officer....or really anyone armed with a firearm.....you should expect to take a bullet. (Remember this guy was what, 6'5" and almost 300 pounds) When someone that size attacks me I will shoot first and ask questions later.

 

If a large group of people in tactical gear (police or not) storm my house I likely will hit the ground and hope for the best, nothing good can come from me trying to Rambo my way out of that situation. If my dog was killed by them so be it.....though you better believe I will lawyer up when it is all said and done and I'd be shooting for the jackpot payout (I would see it as an accident/epic screw up....but someone would be taking responsibility for their incompetence.

The types of screw ups you are talking about are rare and certainly don't fall anywhere in the norm....though those responsible for such screw ups should be dealt with very harshly (lengthy prison sentences IMO). The vast majority of cops are good people just trying to do their job to the best of their ability, unfortunately they are human and do make mistakes. It just so happens that more people pull the camera out when cops are doing the wrong thing and then throw it on Youtube. Police doing their jobs the correct way is quite boring and doesn't draw many views.

 

The only thing I have heard people say is that he shouldn't have been shot because he was unarmed. But given then fact he was trying to become armed by attempting to take the police officer's gun I say the cop had every right to shoot him. The cop had every right to assume that any of the guys further aggression would also be an attempt to take his firearm (and likely use it to kill the officer) as well. If the guy hadn't gone for the gun I would say pepper spray or the tazer would have been called for, but the dipshit went for the officer's deadly weapon.

Maybe after he got out of the vehicle he could have used less than lethal force but things had already escalated and I don't fault the police officer for using the gun.