Posted by bad_luck on 8/24/2014 11:10:00 AM (view original):
The fact that Brown was unarmed and 30 feet away when he was killed.

Regardless of whether or not there was a struggle, once a Brown was that far away with his hands up, he was no longer a threat and should not have been shot.

Apparently, BL was right there watching the whole time.

Posted by toddcommish on 8/24/2014 12:49:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 8/24/2014 11:10:00 AM (view original):
The fact that Brown was unarmed and 30 feet away when he was killed.

Regardless of whether or not there was a struggle, once a Brown was that far away with his hands up, he was no longer a threat and should not have been shot.

Apparently, BL was right there watching the whole time.

I forgot that you latch on to every word.

There are two versions of the event. The version from the witnesses and the version from the police.

If the witnesses are correct, Brown was shot unjustly. Hence the outrage.

Is there a credible version of the SLC shooting that leads anyone to believe the shooting was unjust?

Posted by moy23 on 8/24/2014 11:24:00 AM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 8/24/2014 11:10:00 AM (view original):
The fact that Brown was unarmed and 30 feet away when he was killed.

Regardless of whether or not there was a struggle, once a Brown was that far away with his hands up, he was no longer a threat and should not have been shot.

Its a fact he was 30 feet away and had his hands up when he was shot? I thought they were still waiting on forensics?

That's the problem with libs.... They don't understand what 'facts' are so they take what the media portrays as truth.

Is someone 30 feet away not a threat?    Seems like that gap can be closed pretty quickly.

There are three versions: what the police are saying, what the witnesses are saying, and what really happened.

The only thing we can all be sure of is that a guy got shot.  Period.

It seems like the cops should be able to handle one unarmed person 30 feet away in a non lethal way.

nits make lice

Tec asks, "where's the outrage when a white person gets shot? This is racism."

My point is that, from the perspective of the people who are outraged, this shooting was not justifiable according to the witness statements. It is different from other officer involved shootings.

Maybe those witnesses are wrong. It's certainly a possibility. But as long as their stories are credible, the sentiment that the cop murdered Brown will remain.

racist boot-licker

Posted by MikeT23 on 8/24/2014 3:03:00 PM (view original):

Does anyone think this is what happened?

A struggle ensues, large adult male backs away and raises his hands, cop shoots him 6 times from 30 feet away.

That seems far-fetched. 

So no one thinks this it what happened?

If not, why the rush to lynch the racist cop for shooting the poor, black teenager?

Posted by tecwrg on 8/25/2014 10:52:00 AM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 8/24/2014 3:03:00 PM (view original):
Tec asks, "where's the outrage when a white person gets shot? This is racism."

My point is that, from the perspective of the people who are outraged, this shooting was not justifiable according to the witness statements. It is different from other officer involved shootings.

Maybe those witnesses are wrong. It's certainly a possibility. But as long as their stories are credible, the sentiment that the cop murdered Brown will remain.

From what I've read, the "witness statements" are certainly not aligned with a single, consistent account of what may or may not have happened.

The real problem here is that, in general, there is typically a rush to judgement in cases like this whenever there's an opportunity to "blame whitey" in an alleged "crime" against a black person, and the libs and the media love to jump on the bandwagon.

It's crap like this which hinders race relations rather than help them.  The folks screaming "RACIST" the loudest often turn out to be the biggest racists themselves.

Feel free to refer back to the 80's with the Tawana Brawley incident for more details.

Again, there are plenty of police shootings. Many of them involve a white cop and a black suspect. There is rarely any outrage because most police shootings are justifiable.

So, when you ask, why is there outrage this time, the answer is not racism or a rush to blame whitey. The answer is that there is doubt that this shooting is justifiable.

Maybe the investigation will reveal that it was. Maybe it won't.