I'm not sure walking up to a group of people asking for a "shotgun" is the best way to ask for a new mic...
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Ferguson: Police Kill 18yo Black Male; Fire Gas/Rubber Bullets Into Protesting Crowds
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Abstruse Moose
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Tim does not come to class prepared.
Evil_Silver
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Come on it is completely understandable why the officer would fear for his life that is a lot of ki from that weed juice.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Tim should rub dog poop all over his press pass in case there is a repeat of last night.
Tom Green-style.
Tom Green-style.
Random Painted HIghway
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I really don't see how as a prosecutor you can do that and not let a petit jury hear the case. The gj is to find probable cause, how the hell do you not have pc in this case.
BronsonLee
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Bring your own shit, Tim!
Puppet Shadow
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Seems quiet, unless it's at another location.
Eh, press guys (who he was asking) know what a shotgun mic is, but I hear ya.
Because he has done almost nothing. For a whole week all he did was do pageantry stuff while his people were getting gassed and shot at with rubber bullets. There is an injustice and he has really done nothing. He cancelled his trip to the state fair to give everyone non-answers during his presser. He didn't finally step in until the press started getting arrested.
But people are watching him and the police and do want heads to roll for the things happening.
I'd have noped the hell out of there after the live fire shots last night.
BronsonLee
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...You need to indict him with a crime. What's the crime? He could resign from being Governor, but that's unlikely unless someone makes him (AKA Obama).
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Dat wicked beat.
More_Badass
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Why? Why? For what? It sounds like it's been peaceful so far, right?
It's like they're not even waiting for an excuse now. Oh, almost time to start tear gassing now!
Puppet Shadow
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Random Painted HIghway
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Right, it could be a set up for a no bill. A wink and a nudge from the prosecutor. I wasn't honestly thinking a prosecutor would so willingly se this city on fire, but who the hell knows.
It was another Vice crew. I forget the guy's name but he did a bunch of segments on their HBO show.
no bill?
Has he said whether or not he's obtained some "credentials"?
Jmanunknown
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His days as a police officer in Ferguson are probably over no matter what happens. The police in that community will not be trusted at all for a long time.
He got hit by rubber bullets, tear gas, smoke, and live bullets flied past him. Yet he's STILL out there.
Can't have anything but respect for someone so dedicated.
His days as a police officer are probably over in most of the US.
Yeah I know they know, I was more worried about the cops standing around hearing someone loudly saying "shotgun!" and freaking the fuck out.
Random Painted HIghway
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I would think so. Perjury charges are really tough to make stick and are usually not worth he effort in perusing, usually because the main charge has a harsher penalty.
That motherfucker Nixon is a brilliant politician. It's part of why I dislike him: none of this is going to come back on him. Not. One. Bit. And because he's a Dem, Obama can't put his dumb ass on blast either. Sad but that's how it is.
BronsonLee
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It's an unfortunate reality here. The situation has been handled like shit, but he's the top dog here. If he goes, everybody else below him on the totem pole has to go first.
Random Painted HIghway
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Sorry For the language no bill is the gj declining charges, true bill is the gj handing down the indictment,
He'll get the grace under pressure title without having done a damn thing for it.
okeydoke from the get go. the chief and the prosecutor and everyone else in a position of leadership in that municipality have to work together for things to be like they are right now.
This won't get anywhere when you have generations of good ole boys to weed through.
People are missing that this is why the protests and distrust and anger are out there. The expectation that nothing will come of it, that no one will be punished, that this death and others will be swept under the administrative rug or even stomped into the cracks. The most important thing to the law and order side is maintaining their reputations because if they lose their legitimacy, they're sunk, and who knows what else might be found out? When the prosecutor said it was an outrage that anyone would dare criticize the actions of the chief, that was it.
Holder needs to come in there and make some people recuse themselves, or else this will only get worse. If this cop gets off, things will burn.
HP_Wuvcraft
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That car is fucked up.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Tim hitting on women now.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Tim is interviewing someone using the Mike Brown name.
ab.aeterno
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Guess we have to hope Wilson is at least a fucking ham sandwich then, because if a grand jury doesn't indict then it must have been a really poor job of prosecution. Don't grand juries have a much lower bar to clear for true bill given they are only moving a case to court, not handing down a verdict?
Puppet Shadow
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thepotatoman
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Because he publicly blasted the one and only good show of faith anyone gave the protesters, making the Highway Patrol chief the temporary Ferguson police chief, calling it "shameful".
Because he already has a history of siding with the police in controversial police abuse trials.
Oh, and because his mother and brother are cops as well.
Prosecutors will always have a bit of a problem with being biased towards cop simply because their jobs put them siding with the cop 99% of the time. It's just the nature of things. You put the rest of those biases on top, and there's just no way you can expect him to be impartial at all. If all there was, was a tragic story about his fathers death, I might be more sympathetic, but it just all combines to simply be too much.
Hell, an impartial prosecutor probably would have recused himself by now, simply because such widespread accusations should make you question if you're really the right man for the job.
The Lamonster
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lol reddit dudes
TheAbsolution
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How is Tim streaming this anyways?
One of those mobile network aggragating backpack setups?
One of those mobile network aggragating backpack setups?
I think so. He mentioned something about hooking a cable up, "to the backpack," last night.
BronsonLee
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Yeah, probably a satellite backpack/LiveView. It explains why he's able to be so mobile while news crews are stuck to their vans (since all the hookups/satellite stuff is in there).
It's been around since 08, I think? It just really started to take hold now.
How much are they?
Tim's gotten a lot of recognition for using it in the past. I remember him using it during the Brooklyn protests last year.
TheAbsolution
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If so, those things are really cool.
They take the 4 wireless networks and put them all together get a stream going.
elrechazado
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Under what legal theory could a president make a governor resign? He's not a king
Bam Bam Baklava
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Bitrate sure does suck though.
ReignofSparrows
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Correct. The purpose of the Grand Jury is to determine if there is probable cause which is substantially lower than the reasonable doubt standard. The poster you are responding to is as incredulous as I am (and also appears to be an attorney) that the prosecutor appears so unsure that there is even probable cause in this case.
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