I think people are misreading my posts. I am as anti-authoritarian police as can be. I am more fair administration of justice for both sides, not roasting one side over the spit of public conscience and ignoring the possibly follies of another. Not that the reporters did anything wrong. I do not know. But to say they did not without all the facts and completely ignore one side's claims because they are contributory in fault? That I cannot abide.
Did the police mess up? Yes, they did, and if I were barred in Missouri I would be the first in the court. Did the reporters mess up? I do not know. There is not enough evidence for me, or anyone, to say.
"A good reason to believe" is not the same as "objectively true".
There are statements from the Manager at Mcdonalds.
You've ignored it, but Mcdonalds was being used as a HUB for media due to Wifi/power to recharge. You're blind and ignorant of the facts. You abiding to anything doesn't matter. You have focused on a scenario, and are blindly defending it with nonsense. The whole "who knows whats happening" thing only works when everyone doesn't know. You're the only person.
The most disgusting thing about everything you're doing in this thread, is that you didn't even take a second to google before victim blaming. Just rushed in to defend abusing citizens/journalist with speculation.
There is no fair scenario happening. Right now, it seems to be chaos with the PD at the lead. They can't be used as a barometer of fair application of law at this present time. So why you'd go to their defense as to possibly create valid reasons for them to assault journalist, just goes along with the victim blaming. But we can't say that you're victim blaming 100%, as you're attempting to distance yourself from any point by thinking you can say asinine things combined with the attitude of 'we simply dont know.'