Officerrob
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St. Louis Police Officer Shoots, Kills Teen During Pedestrian Check
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Perhaps he just enjoys GSR on his sandwich?
More or less. My concern is now that this will be touted as the rule and not the exception in these cases going forward.
Random Painted HIghway
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Unfortunate that someone died or unfortunate that it turns out to be a justified shooting?
Please stop instigating.
A tragedy regardless.
Now that there is more information it appears this shooting was justified. Hopefully this restores some faith in the police to act appropriately in most situations. For me, this destroys the credibility of some journalists who covered this story as another Mike Brown.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
What? So you WANTED the cop to be wrong? You actually hoped he murdered the kid in cold blood?
It's a valid point.
"That's unfortunate" implies he was hoping the kid was innocent and the cop murdered him.
What exactly do you mean? That "police shooting was justified" will be touted as the rule? Whereas you think that, in general, a police shooting is not justified?
Because, while I don't have time to look up the numbers right now, I'm pretty sure this is the rule. Most of the time when the police shoot someone, it's because they have cause to (eg the other guy pulled a gun). Yes, we see a lot of news stories of cops making mistakes, and some of them are ridiculous and inexcusable errors.
But overall, I'm pretty sure most police shootings are legit.
No, it's not. Fucking stop
Otakumegane
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So basically the officer was in the right.
Good for him then.
Good for him then.
He's talking about stop and frisk or the "Pedestrian Check" as the thread calls it.
And it's always unfortunately when someone loses their life.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Yes, it is, and it goes right along with this post of yours.
Too bad this piece of evidence didn't turn up in your favor. "That's unfortunate."
Chie Satonaka
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I just typed out two paragraphs responding to some of the shit on this page, but it's not even worth the energy I'm putting into this post.
Some of you guys must be a blast at parties.
Some of you guys must be a blast at parties.
Random Painted HIghway
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Instigating? No, I just figure the person I quoted would appreciate the opportunity not to be taken out of context like brolic gamer is doing.
Thank god.
Not much else to say here. The protests about this incident were premature, but that mostly speaks to the complete lack of trust many in the community has for their local law enforcement. I hope they don't reflect badly on the Ferguson protests as a whole, but that's unfortunately going to be up to whoever's spinning the narrative.
Christopher
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A sandwich wow...just from my limited experience a lot of people lie, it makes you lose faith in humanity sometimes.
The people that will spin that narrative are already blowing smoke up their audience's ass regarding these shootings. I don't think it'll make that much difference. It's nice that this story boiled down to a guy doing his job. But it's awful that it's so easy to believe that he could have been dirty that we can't give him the benefit of the doubt without people ascribing tendencies to us with no evidence except that we give the officer of the law the benefit of the doubt.
I'd like to think that stories like this would make posters think twice before villifying police and posters. But it won't because GAF is full of cynics and because a lot of cops are shitheads that perpetrate instituionalized racism against the community they're meant to protect.
There are some many universes of things wrong with this sentiment.
"Just doing his job" is a classically and hilariously bad justification for anyone doing anything ever.
Why is it a relief that someone's job includes stopping and harassing people for "existing while black".
It's like this: there's two stories here. The one is this officer replied to a threat on his life in the way he felt appropriate and is empowered to reply. Fine. The more important story, the story that inspires the protests is the institutional story. It's why is that officer in that place at all, why do officers stop black kids just for existing, why is the police response in St Louis so frequently to kill rather than somehow disarm.
This is why the protests happen:
Whether or not Myers in some way "deserved" getting killed matters on the scale of "should that cop be punished". But it's immaterial to the broader issue of why do cops in this city (and country) kill as many (especially young, black, dude) people as they do.
There's sort of an update to this one.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...myers-from-behind/ar-BBaWzFg?ocid=ansnewsap11
I confess I can't really build a mental picture of this pose.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...myers-from-behind/ar-BBaWzFg?ocid=ansnewsap11
I confess I can't really build a mental picture of this pose.
Neither can I. The attorney from the police officer makes it sound like Jason Bourne was still shooting at the police officer contorting as he went down. I'd love to see a picture from this attorney for how he was positioned shooting at the officer.
Edit: surely the police have proof that this gun found on the scene was fired and the trajectory of the bullets. Along with tracing back how this kid got this gun. They should be releasing this information because it still seems fishy as fuck.
You can find it on the cover of any comic book featuring a female character. It's called the boobs and butt pose.
Here's an example.
So I guess black kids now have this completely unrealistic superpower too, along with dehumanizing stare-vision and quick-twitch instantaneous movement.
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