Author Topic: "Poll: Should officer Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown, be arrested?"  (Read 69525 times)

That is how they're taught.
i dont know what this falls under exactly but a few of my cop buddies say they've had to shoot a few animals (a deer that got hit by a car but wasnt dead, for example)

well thats an animal, and a mercy killing at that
not really an issue of abuse of power

I feel they need to retrain cops. Cops shoot way to early. They need to be taught to discharge their weapons as either A) Last resort or B) There is already an active fire fight.
i feel that
That is how they're taught.
hahaha
i know some people who should have payed more attention in police academy

i know some people who should have payed more attention in police academy
yeah im sure you totally know some cops who discharge their gun whenever they can
truth is, cops even unholstering their gun is rare
« Last Edit: November 25, 2014, 11:38:33 PM by Frankie² »

yeah im sure you totally know some cops who discharge their gun whenever they can
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    darren wilson’s injuries are more likely either self-inflicted (cheek), shaving (chin/back of the head), or rosacea/other erythema (back of the head)

    his photos show visible redness of the face in peak rosacea zones (nose, forehead, cheeks). rosacea, common in white populations around wilson’s age, can affect the face and surrounding areas like neck and chest. the ‘bruise’ on the back of his head could easily be a skin condition.

    his injuries had faded by evidence photos taken a few days later."
"expanding.

Darren Wilson claimed to have a cut on his hand (pg 224 of the documents), which was not made available through any of the medical exam photos, nor was it written anywhere in the diagnosis, which was thorough enough to mention the facial contusion, which would have been less evident than a laceration.

This claims no laceration in skin. I don’t know if anyone here has ever done a report, but I’ve sat through write ups of them. It covers all skin. A hand laceration would’ve been claimed; otherwise the ‘no laceration’ wouldn’t have been recorded.

There was minimal palpable pain to the left mid maxillary region, which is the area roughly between the nose and the cheek on the left side, and noted with no deformity (i.e., no visible injury); mild palpable pain on the right mid mandible and maxillary region (the nose-cheek area plus cheek). If this bruise was sustained from Mike Brown punching him, he would’ve had to reach around him to the other side and punch him. (Wilson would have been in the driver seat, on the left side, with his left cheek showing; the bruise is on his right cheek.)

The hairline (back of the neck images) sustained superficial abrasions. A superficial abrasion means that it didn’t go deeper than the skin—i.e., not a bruise. Most likely they are first-degree abrasions and are therefore about as serious as if you peeled off a layer of your skin near your nail, or accidentally scraped your hand on some bark. They were also noted as faint. Even if they weren’t a skin condition, there’s no telling if they were recent or not.

His head exam comes up as atraumatic. No trauma. Completely normal. He was prescribed with Naproxen, an NSAID that is comparable to ibuprofen and is most commonly prescribed to control pain associated with inflammation.

Basically: Darren Wilson sustained no injury and lied in his testimony about his injuries"

thoughts?

Although me taking it as something to celebrate was well undeserved. I have to offer my utmost respect for the family, as it can be heartbreaking knowing that proper justice wasn't delivered over their son's death. I should feel ashamed, and I do.

Thank you.

There was minimal palpable pain to the left mid maxillary region, which is the area roughly between the nose and the cheek on the left side, and noted with no deformity (i.e., no visible injury); mild palpable pain on the right mid mandible and maxillary region (the nose-cheek area plus cheek). If this bruise was sustained from Mike Brown punching him, he would’ve had to reach around him to the other side and punch him. (Wilson would have been in the driver seat, on the left side, with his left cheek showing; the bruise is on his right cheek.)
Being in a couple kerfuffles myself, I will say that you do sway your head back and forth while in a fight in a loose attempt to minimize any damage you take yourself. It's not impossible that he could've sustained bruises from looking around for his mace/gun (as he claimed) and trying to defend himself, however the injury photos themselves are very uninteresting to say the least.

Being in a couple kerfuffles myself, I will say that you do sway your head back and forth while in a fight in a loose attempt to minimize any damage you take yourself. It's not impossible that he could've sustained bruises from looking around for his mace/gun (as he claimed) and trying to defend himself, however the injury photos themselves are very uninteresting to say the least.
yeah but i still think that there's a lot of dirt on him from this

also im pretty sure that him getting married recently was so his stuff could be more legally protected

also im pretty sure that him getting married recently was so his stuff could be more legally protected
That seems pretty far fetched.

also im pretty sure that him getting married recently was so his stuff could be more legally protected

you're completely insane

you're completely insane
yeah, going to have this position as well after reading the rest of the thread.

If this was a black cop shooting a white kid, I can guarantee that everyone would've forgotten about it within a week. It doesn't even scream tribal so much if you look at it this way. It's just declaring that black people need attention.

But I've noticed something.
Every person that says this fails to realize that America still is not equal. Not to scream "slavery!", but it really was not that long ago. You cannot go from an entire race being restricted and discriminated against to "woo everyone's equal!" in a mere 50-60 years. (Which only reaches back to grandparents.)

Also, the reason that "if this was a white kid, it wouldn't have gotten so much publicity," is because if it were a white man, the odds of the perpetrator being arrested and charged is much higher than if it were a black man, and I am not saying that Michael Brown was not wrong in this situation, because he was, (He stole from a store and then, instead of hiding, decided to walk in the middle of the street and confront a police officer) but this is not the only case where this has happened.

Even past that however, everyone's life is valuable, and as said several times in this thread before, America as a whole needs to move past things such as skin color and look at the individual beneath. Not for one second do I believe that Wilson was a tribal. Did an alarm in his head saying "Hey, it's a 6'5 black male, better watch out," go off? Most likely, but that is one of the issues that we must move past (discrimination), and it also does not make him a tribal.


When people say "It IS a race issue," people are quick to say "but no one in this situation was being tribal!" That is true, but that does not mean that it still is not partly a race issue.
None of us know what truly happened however, and arguing over the possibilities when the case has already been closed is similar to beating a dead horse.

When people say "It IS a race issue," people are quick to say "but no one in this situation was being tribal!" That is true, but that does not mean that it still is not partly a race issue.
None of us know what truly happened however, and arguing over the possibilities when the case has already been closed is similar to beating a dead horse.
It's a race issue more because of the pre-existing racial tensions existing in Ferguson. Whether or not Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown because he was black is kind of irrelevant. The black population of Ferguson sees it as a sign of what's been happening for years in the town.

If this was a black cop shooting a white kid, I can guarantee that everyone would've forgotten about it within a week. It doesn't even scream tribal so much if you look at it this way. It's just declaring that black people need attention.

No, if this was a black cop shooting a white kid he would've been arrested immediately.

No, if this was a black cop shooting a white kid he would've been arrested immediately.
damn, i sure love these totally unverifiable and unsupported statements being made in this thread.