Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Police: Darren Wilson, officer in Ferguson shooting, had no prior disciplinary record [More Info]
CNN ^ | 08/05/14

Posted on 08/15/2014 9:22:25 AM PDT by BunnySlippers

Darren Wilson was just one of 53 officers in a small-town police department until his encounter with a unarmed 18-year-old last Saturday on a street in Ferguson, Missouri

....

Jackson, before speaking to reporters, told CNN's Don Lemon that the officer was "devastated" by what had happened.

...

The documents said four to six shots were fired.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ferguson; mikebrown
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160 ... 281-298 next last
To: txrefugee
I'm told this is Darren Wilson.


121 posted on 08/15/2014 10:26:42 AM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Chip

Are you blaming the police for this incident or the guy that robbed the store? I just want to be clear.


122 posted on 08/15/2014 10:27:16 AM PDT by tatown ("So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it's still white men's fault.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 119 | View Replies]

To: Defiant

The cop is white, not that it matters.

Big Mike and friends were shoplifting at QT, then walked home.

The cop was on his way to the apartment complex because of a call of ‘shots fired’.

He ‘may’ have gotten a BOLO for Big Mike right as this incident occurred.

I don’t think Big Mike was going to take the gun to shoot the officer. I think he may have reached for it, after he slugged the officer, to keep the officer from shooting him, and because he thought he could escape then. Big Mike wasn’t very smart.

I told everyone about this last night, but no one believed me. It is nice to have the media and Freepers finally catching up.


123 posted on 08/15/2014 10:28:01 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 104 | View Replies]

To: UCANSEE2

They will be sorting this all out on the radio today — so we will see.

The governor just said that the focus is still on how Michael Brown died.


124 posted on 08/15/2014 10:28:24 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 106 | View Replies]

To: INVAR

Shooting someone in the back 35 feet from my door....

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Why do you keep repeating this lame MSM baloney in reply after reply? Its been proven a lie.

Here’s something else you may not know.... George Zimmerman was innocent in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

Try and keep up, mm-kay?


125 posted on 08/15/2014 10:30:19 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: UCANSEE2
Yes, but the 'shooter' wasn't a citizen, he was a police officer who had been assaulted.

Right. So agents of the state are exempt from laws that apply to the rest of us 'plebes'. Gotcha.

While we would be charged with murder for something similar, anyone with a badge is exempt from the same standards that govern the rest of us.

Cops have a license to kill whenever they feel threatened.

Terrific. Explains why so many pets are shot by cops these days too.

126 posted on 08/15/2014 10:32:07 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 111 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

FR is infested with Michael Brown/Trayvon Martin apologists. You are wasting your time trying to use logic/facts with them.


127 posted on 08/15/2014 10:32:37 AM PDT by tatown ("So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it's still white men's fault.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 125 | View Replies]

To: tatown

There is enough blame to go around.

The police stopped shooting robbery suspects, black or white, claiming that as justification for their shoot, over 40 years ago.

Citizens aren’t allowed to do it even if the perp is running out of your house with a TV after assaulting you them.


128 posted on 08/15/2014 10:33:07 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 122 | View Replies]

To: Balding_Eagle
It's interesting that the star witness said the cop grabbed him by the shirt......just like the little monster grabbed the clerk in the store...10 minutes earlier.

So, I'd say that it's a lie...and it was the only thing he could think of saying.

Any clues why the kid ran?? After being shot. I'm guessing...but I'll bet that it was that first shot that "became" fatal from his own blood rushing as he tried to run.

129 posted on 08/15/2014 10:33:52 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Chip; tatown

It is still questionable that the officer knew Big Mike by sight, or knew that Mike was involved in the QT shoplifting/robbery/assault.

If so, it would have had to have happened during the incident, likely when the officer who had passed the ‘teens’ hit his brakes and backed up.

That is when Big Mike ‘inadvertently’ bumped the door closed as the officer was trying to jump out of the car.


130 posted on 08/15/2014 10:36:07 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 119 | View Replies]

To: txrefugee

Picture seems to be of a ST. Louis police officer, who was not the shooter. We will have to wait for good info.


131 posted on 08/15/2014 10:37:43 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: tatown

His buddy witness said they were both running....The witness hid behind a car and said “Go Bro” as his buddy passed.


132 posted on 08/15/2014 10:37:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: GeronL

That Brown was a thug gangbanger and a robber is not something I am disputing at all. I never was.

My issue is noting that if that had that been any of us who shot Brown,- we would be arrested and charged with manslaughter at minimum or murder.

4-6 shots at an unarmed perp some distance from your door?

I’m noting the discrepancy in the application of lawful use of deadly force between an agent of the state and a citizen.


133 posted on 08/15/2014 10:37:53 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 118 | View Replies]

To: South40

I do not think it is the correct Darren Wilson.

ST LOUIS POLICE and FERGUSON POLICE are two different agencies.


134 posted on 08/15/2014 10:38:29 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 121 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Chip
His last words were that he couldn’t breathe.

Put another way, his last words were an oxymoron.

135 posted on 08/15/2014 10:38:47 AM PDT by wideawake
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: MeshugeMikey
This is another of Obama's sons.

I believe none of Tray's background was able to be used at George's trial.

Get this picture around. It's Tray Part II.

136 posted on 08/15/2014 10:40:28 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 75 | View Replies]

To: Uncle Chip

Who said anything about shooting MB because he was a robbery suspect? MB was shot because his failure to follow orders led to a physical altercation that turned lethal. It really is pretty simple, DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD and the situation will not escalate. Simply shut up and do as directed, especially if you are a suspect in a felony (ie robbery).


137 posted on 08/15/2014 10:42:23 AM PDT by tatown ("So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it's still white men's fault.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 128 | View Replies]

To: INVAR
If someone broke into my house, and struggled with me to take one of my weapons and after I fired off a round, the perp ran outside - and if II shot him 4-6 times as he was 35 feet from my door running away…. I would be charged with murder (or at minimum manslaughter)

Not in Texas if it is night. At night the law assumes that you can not tell if the bad guy is armed and thus deadly force is warranted. It assumes that the bad guy could turn around and shoot you.

138 posted on 08/15/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by cpdiii (deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist. The constitution is worth dying for!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: INVAR

From the kid’s bud...he was shot before he started running. His friend said there was blood gushing through his shirt. I’m betting there’s only one bullet hole...that’s why crump wants another autopsy.


139 posted on 08/15/2014 10:43:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 82 | View Replies]

To: INVAR

Yes, we all know there are abuses of the ‘law’ by police officers. And just about every other human being on the planet. It’s sad, but the world is filled with corrupt people.

Now, let’s go back to the issue of your claim. The one about distance being a factor.

Let’s say you pull out a toy gun and aim it at the President, and you are 35 feet away from the nearest Secret Service Agent (who are citizens, btw, subject to the same laws as you, correct?).

Do you think they will shoot you, and do you think they will be found legally correct in shooting you ?


140 posted on 08/15/2014 10:44:09 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 126 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160 ... 281-298 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson