Ok. I'm going to play the devils advocate for a minute here. I know this is likely to piss a bunch of people off, but I feel the cops side of the story is not being represented. For the record.....Yes I am a white guy from the suburbs, and no I don't think its ok to shoot anybody in the back while they are running away.
The cop is responding to a report of a strong arm robbery. He sees a group of kids walking down the street that match the description, pulls over to question them, gets into an altercation with Brown. Brown pushes him into his car and a shot is fired during the struggle, at which point Brown gets startled and runs off. The officer shoots him as he is running away. Now, I've always been under the impression that cops are trained to refrain from shooting if they can, but once the first shot is fired they shoot to kill and shoot until the target is down. In this context, wouldn't he have done exactly what he was trained to do?
Again, I'm not trying to justify the shooting, just to shed some light on the other version of the incident
