"Poll: Should officer Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown, be arrested?"

[Strovbe]

and also for a bit more proof that there are a lot of racially motivated police killings:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2845898/Cleveland-cop-shoots-12-year-old-boy-carrying-BB-gun-TWICE-despite-witness-telling-911-dispatcher-weapon-probably-fake.html

okay while i do believe a lot of police shootings are racially motivated, this one was kinda justified, no matter the age of the child. he pointed a gun at them, they didn't know for sure if it was fake or not, they could've been killed.

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[Harm94]

As someone who use to fight alight, overall size doesn't matter. You can be the tallest meanest mother forgeter and have tiny or average hands.

Bruise size depends on the size of the hand, how fast the fist was moving, how much flesh and bone was impacted, and the kinetic energy from the impact.
Incase you missed the Grand Jury Statement.
Basically their is insufficient evidence to take Wilson to court.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuupBHUGbYo
Well worth the watch.
On the 12 year old:
Something similar happened last year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm8WYm0WW-Q
Kid was a Hispanic boy in Santa Rosa California, made the mistake of pointing a replica AK-47 at a cop after being told to put it down. Kids aren't the best decision makers.

The one on the right is the fake one, the one on the left is the real deal used for comparsion. To the average person, they both look pretty damn real

For kimon:

[Kimon²]

well what i seem to be gathering from this is that you collectively agree on a trained professional's lack of ability to distinguish a 12 year old with a BB gun from an actual threat and that's really worrying

[Trifax]

I live in South Central LA. The protest just passed my apartment, stuff is intense here. Took some video if anyone's interested in seeing. Anyone who knows their recent history would know that LA is particularly...sensitive and reactionary to racially charged situations.

Dozens of police helicopters, traffic is atrocious, protestors chanting "forget the pigs"

[Camel]

I live in South Central LA. The protest just passed my apartment, stuff is intense here. Took some video if anyone's interested in seeing. Anyone who knows their recent history would know that LA is particularly...sensitive and reactionary to racially charged situations.

Dozens of police helicopters, traffic is atrocious, protestors chanting "forget the pigs"

"why can't we all just get along?"

[Strovbe]

well what i seem to be gathering from this is that you collectively agree on a trained professional's lack of ability to distinguish a 12 year old with a BB gun from an actual threat and that's really worrying

the gun didn't have the orange tip. some BB guns look real as forget. not to mention the kid pointed the gun at the police officers.

[Kimon²]

the gun didn't have the orange tip. some BB guns look real as forget.

even if in some ungodly hellscape there was a 12 year old bent on going on a shooting spree and waited until the police showed up to do it i doubt the police would have much of a problem taking him down without shooting him

[Alyx Vance]

even if in some ungodly hellscape there was a 12 year old bent on going on a shooting spree and waited until the police showed up to do it i doubt the police would have much of a problem taking him down without shooting him

I'm guessing you've never stood on the other end of a barrel?

[Strovbe]

even if in some ungodly hellscape there was a 12 year old bent on going on a shooting spree and waited until the police showed up to do it i doubt the police would have much of a problem taking him down without shooting him

have you ever had a gun pointed at you? it doesn't matter who's on the other end of it, it's loving terrifying. you're not just simply gonna rush a kid with a gun pointed at you. you more than likely won't make it more than 2 feet without getting shot.

[Alternat¡ve]

even if in some ungodly hellscape there was a 12 year old bent on going on a shooting spree and waited until the police showed up to do it i doubt the police would have much of a problem taking him down without shooting him

so what you are saying is a cop should prioritize the safety of a shooter over the safety of his own life?

[SeventhSandwich]

even if in some ungodly hellscape there was a 12 year old bent on going on a shooting spree and waited until the police showed up to do it i doubt the police would have much of a problem taking him down without shooting him

Well, the thing about guns though is that they kill people from a distance. That means that if a kid points a gun at you and you aren't already up close to him and ready to tackle/taze him, it doesn't matter at all how tiny the kid is or how weak he is. As long as he can pull the trigger, it's curtains.

I side with the police officer who shot the child. The entire dilemma is a tragedy, but the police officer probably has a family that he wants to go home and see every night. People pay children to murder people all the time, and the only thing we can do to avoid this happening again is to teach parents to not buy children modified replicas of real firearms...

[Trifax]

"why can't we all just get along?"

Nailed it.

[Kimon²]

I'm guessing you've never stood on the other end of a barrel?

i cant say ive ever had the honor of protecting our country from 12 year olds with bb guns by shooting them, no

what you are all forgetting is that this was a 12 year old kid, which they should have known had a bb gun because the person who made the 911 call explicitly told them that it was not a real gun

there is absolutely no justification for shooting that child

[Harm94]

well what i seem to be gathering from this is that you collectively agree on a trained professional's lack of ability to distinguish a 12 year old with a BB gun from an actual threat and that's really worrying

Cops are trained to keep peace and enforce laws. Officers don't spend every minute of the day memorizing what a real gun and what a fake gun looks like. I could, I've always loved military stuff as a kid. I've ready many books and wikis on military equipment, But not everyone is like me.

[Foxscotch]

Hi, I'm 17. Michael Brown was an 18 year old 292 lb 6' 4" man. That is not a 'kid'.

I too am 17, but to anyone over, like, 25, 18 is a kid
but apparently we're talking about the other thing now, and this one was definitely, without question, a kid