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Didn't even hear about that. If he told a mob to burn things down he needs to be punished in some way. I don;t know what the rules are for inciting a mob.

 

BTW @davriver209, what do you think about cops wearing cameras? This whole thing wouldn't even be in question if Wilson just had a camera on.

 

I was actually just doing that a little. They say Brown was 35 feet away when he was shot, so I wanted to see how far 35' really is. I walked it out in my living room and what I thought was about 35' was actually around 20'. That's a huge freaking distance.

Regarding the rest, I don't believe Wilson's story because he contradicted himself in his description of what happened. First Wilson says he started talking to Brown to tell him that he and his friend had to walk on the sidewalk, he said he didn't know Brown just robbed that store, but later Wilson said he positioned his car to stop Brown from getting away.... getting away from what? J-Walking? Why would he be trying to stop Brown from getting away if he didn't know about the store?

Second, Wilson said he was getting beaten so bad that he thought he was going to pass out. Bull s***. Did you see the pictures? He barely looked like he got touched. He had a very light black eye and his cheeks were a little red. That's about it.

So I can't put myself in Wilson's shoes because I dont believe his side. What I think is that Brown probably was just as violent as he says, but Wilson is covering his a** for the things that he could be in trouble for, because I think he's lying about some of it to make himself look like the angel in all of this.

 

That's one of the misconceptions. He was 35 feet from the cop car. The officer had followed him for a distance. In the interview with Stephanoplos (spelling) he said he was about 15 - 20 feet away. Not far when someone is running at you and you just got molly whopped by him a couple times. And he's been shot, so adrenaline is definitely at an all time high (for both of them).

 

Lady in the white hat is Mike Brown's mother.

 

^He said it in anger and grief, but there's no excuse if it seems the crowd actually listened to him and burned things right after he said that.

@davriver209, do you know the law for inciting a mob/riot? I'm curious as to what the criteria is

 

The police chief said the entire scene was 35' from the car door to Brown. That's what I was going off of... but it seems both of us were wrong and it was actually somewhere from 160' to 180' from brown's body to the SUV as the distance was actually measured by reporters. Maybe that's why Wilson shot so many times and missed so much, because he was much further away than he said he was. Alternatively, Wilson could have been closer to brown in which case he would have had to have gotten out of his SUV and chased Brown down the street some before shooting him. Either way, they lied about the distance unless I'm misunderstanding something.

 

I totally agree with you. Maybe they can store the video in a secure site where it's only accessible through official case related requests like an investigation. Whoever requests it has to ask for an exact time period. That way it only gets pulled for a purpose and not to just monitor cops 24/7.

It think it would solve both of our side's problems because we would always know what happened unless the camera "malfunctions" before hand. But I doubt that would happen much because I don;t believe police in these cases are planning things like this Mike Brown killing to happen.

 

As much of a pacifist as I am, I don't think that's the solution. I do think your earlier suggestion to make an effective, non lethal weapon is best, but I don;t know if they haven't done it yet because it's not cost effective, they don't care about killing, they just can't figure out one, or a combination of all those.

 

Or guns are an enormous industry and any weapon that cuts into that is both costly and undesirable from a large industry. Similar reason why we don't have better fuel emissions.

 

Barbaric and probably true.

"Screw all these live we could save, there's money that can be made"

 

Well isn't that the case with fuel?