Missouri Police Officer guns down unarmed 18 year old

[HomerJS]

BTW - watching the riots everyone guaranteed would happen after the announcement even if no indictment

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

These reporters are ridiculous. I think the prosecutor is doing a nice job with his presentation under difficult circumstances.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

BTW - watching the riots everyone guaranteed would happen after the announcement even if no indictment

Why not? It's what the community wants.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Funny how some people gut hooked by the media in case like this.


Poor Crump, no money for you this time.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Jesus the questions from the media seem to be all around why the prosecutor thinks the system is a failure to not result in charges. Just dumping fuel on the fire.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

These reporters are ridiculous. I think the prosecutor is doing a nice job with his presentation under difficult circumstances.

Sharks have poor table manners.

 

[LightPattern]

You should be listening to the Prosecutor now. He is covering your points.

I flipped through a couple chnls covering it... several of them cut off the prosecutor's speech to show outrage from the crowd and speculation from talking heads.

 

[doubledeluxe]

Oops

This is pretty quiet. Shit has not hit the fan.

 

[DrPizza]

They are unreliable when done in good conscience, i.e. honestly. It appears some witnesses here outright lied/knowingly fabricated.

Ya think? On day one, witnesses were saying he was shot in the back. That lasted until the autopsy reports came out.

 

[doubledeluxe]

Be interesting to see what happens when the tactical teams arrive though.

 

[boomerang]

Yup, proves that eye witness accounts are the most unreliable.

Yeah, I'd always heard that but I never understood to what degree until I listened to this press conference.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

This is pretty quiet. Shit has not hit the fan.

There was some activity before. Merely looting and shots fired but no burning or anything as of yet.

 

[LTC8K6]

BTW - watching the riots everyone guaranteed would happen after the announcement even if no indictment

I think the comprehensive statement about the process, the witnesses, and the decision, may actually have helped.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

These reporters are ridiculous. I think the prosecutor is doing a nice job with his presentation under difficult circumstances.

Exactly. some repeats, some just trying to get TV time and stating their opinion and end with some dumb unanswerable question.

Sheesh.

 

[IGBT]

black on black violence amounts to genocide and the obama / holder / jackson / sharpton / media willing accomplices refuse to acknowledge it.

 

[JEDI]

Wouldn't it have been wise to release the grand jury decision earlier in the day, so the initial blowback happened during daylight hours? I don't envy the police in the STL area tonight, assuming they release the decision yet this evening.

nah.. opportunity protesters are lazy.
the man should have released the results at 2am.

lets see who the dedicated are vs the fair weather rioter at that god forsaken time.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I think the comprehensive statement about the process, the witnesses, and the decision, may actually have helped.

Which could not have happened if the "this should not take more than 2 hours" approach had been taken.

What's interesting is the emphasis on cooperation between the police and Holder. It sounds like federal charges aren't happening.

 

[Druidx]

Jesus these people are stupid. One of the reporters just asked McCulloch if the were looking at changing the laws so a police officer cant just kill a child and get away with it, because this isn't justice.

WHAT????

 

[LegendKiller]

Ya think? On day one, witnesses were saying he was shot in the back. That lasted until the autopsy reports came out.

This is what I find most baffling about this. The autopsy pretty much refuted every single "mainstream media" eyewitness and yet people kept parroting the "hands up don't shoot" bullshit. None of the major outlets kept refuting it, they just let it go. Then they give Ben Crump a free ride every time they interviewed him, refused to challenge him on the bullshit.

All you had to do is look at the autopsy and dismiss every single major witness and actually go with more of the leaked (intentional or not) stuff. That and CTH had the forensics pegged as far as where the shooting started and stopped and where the shell casings were.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Jesus these people are stupid. One of the reporters just asked McCulloch if the were looking at changing the laws so a police officer cant just kill a child and get away with it, because this isn't justice.

WHAT????

There hasn't been a good reporter in two decades. They are all Jerry Springers now.

 

[LegendKiller]

Jesus these people are stupid. One of the reporters just asked McCulloch if the were looking at changing the laws so a police officer cant just kill a child and get away with it, because this isn't justice.

WHAT????

Yeah, nevermind this "child" was huge, assaulted somebody before he met wilson, assaulted wilson, tried to disarm him, was shot, ran away, and then RAN TOWARDS Wilson. For fucks sake you fucking morons.

Baffle with bullshit.

 

[JD50]

This is what I find most baffling about this. The autopsy pretty much refuted every single "mainstream media" eyewitness and yet people kept parroting the "hands up don't shoot" bullshit. None of the major outlets kept refuting it, they just let it go. Then they give Ben Crump a free ride every time they interviewed him, refused to challenge him on the bullshit.

All you had to do is look at the autopsy and dismiss every single major witness and actually go with more of the leaked (intentional or not) stuff. That and CTH had the forensics pegged as far as where the shooting started and stopped and where the shell casings were.

It's not that surprising, all of that stuff is laid out perfectly in this thread and you still have people like HomerJs defending Brown.

 

[mizzou]

already heard gunfire in Ferguson

 

[HomerJS]

Yeah, nevermind this "child" was huge, assaulted somebody before he met wilson, assaulted wilson, tried to disarm him, was shot, ran away, and then RAN TOWARDS Wilson. For fucks sake you fucking morons.

Baffle with bullshit.

Actually the prosecutor said both happened. His hands went up in surrender position and he lowered then and charged Wilson

 

[LightPattern]

Jeffrey Toobin on CNN called the first part of the prosecutor's statement "whining" about the media and said it was an embarrassment.
I really hope some people in powerful positions in media outlets really listened to the statement and take to heart how damaging it is for them to broadcast narratives put together without any responsible cross-checking.