Police: Officer Who Shot Michael Brown Did Not Know He Was a Robbery Suspect (But Brown Did)

The Blaze ^ | Aug. 15, 2014 3:24pm | Madeleine Morgenstern

[oh8eleven]

My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.
Are you attempting to apply this to this case?
You know nothing about law and (like the rest of us) know nothing about the truth in this case.
I suggest you wait until all the facts are made public before hanging the cop.

[Gasshog]

No doubt MB is a hero in Hell — his desire to swipe a coupla “blunts” cascaded into millions of dollars of damage, loss and misery.

Satan will probably pin a medal on him.

[jjsheridan5]

My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.

A 300 pound man can certainly be considered an "imminent threat", depending upon how he is acting. Most adult males would be in grave and mortal danger if such an individual attacked them, especially if they were "out of control". So it all depends upon how he was acting. A police officer is not obligated to simply stand there and die, in order to appease the race hustlers, the useful idiots, and the free-stuff-now crowd.

[QT3.14]

Daryl Parks, an attorney for the Brown family, confirmed that the security footage “appears to look like” the teenager, but accused the police chief of “strategically” releasing the video to “assassinate the character of Michael (The Gentle Giant) Brown.”

D-A-M-A-G-E C-O-N-T-R-O-L anybody?

Types like this have been whining for days about the lack of information. Then when they get it.........

I think he also said it didn't matter what happened at the store (Robbery 2 degree - a class B felony no less). MB was executed while he had his hands up. Amazing. LEO's are still putting the puzzle together, but he has all the answers.

In this day and age everybody seems to have cell/smart phone with video. Strangely the yutes at the scene didn't have any evidence to validate claims being made.

[Straight Vermonter]

Who cares that he's now dead? Who cares why he's dead? This world is a better place without him.

You and some cop are now judge, jury and executioner? No thanks.

[maggief]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=529274700424914&set=pb.100000271659972.-2207520000.1408143298.&type=3&theater

Orange soda, Sprite and cigars???

[trisham]

Dead eyes.

[Straight Vermonter]

You missed the point but that’s common on these frothing at the mouth threads.

[jjsheridan5]

You and some cop are now judge, jury and executioner? No thanks.

You are oblivious to the fact that your narrative is rapidly breaking down, but rather than admit that you are potentially wrong, what do you do? Double down on the slander. Nice. I hope that if you ever need the assistance of emergency personnel who have to deal with scum like this on a daily basis, they tell you: "no thanks".

[JRandomFreeper]

Cop doesn’t have to demonstrate crap. The State has to prove, beyond doubt, that he committed murder.

/johnny

[Tau Food]

Every time that you begin to mourn the loss of Michael Brown, I suggest that you think of all of the people that Michael Brown would have been victimizing and abusing on a daily basis, had he lived.

[Straight Vermonter]

The less contact I have with Officer Felony the happier I am.

Find a boot to lick.

[jjsheridan5]

You missed the point but that’s common on these frothing at the mouth threads.

What point did I miss? Be specific. You said (without any evidence, I might add), that it was an execution. I pointed out that it probably wasn't. So: what point did I miss?

[Straight Vermonter]

I don't mourn Michael Brown. I didn't know the man. I'm just not a fan of big government killing citizens without a trial.

I'd think that would be a mainstream conservative idea.

[jjsheridan5]

The more you speak, the less confidence that I have that we are truly an intelligent species. “Find a boot to lick”? “Officer Felony”? What are you, 12?

[Tau Food]

I'm just not a fan of big government killing citizens without a trial.

If the cop did something wrong, then he should be disciplined. I just said that I don't care when a thug like Brown gets killed and that the world will be a better place without him. I don't know how anyone can disagree with that.

How many people died the same day he died? There were many sad, tragic deaths that day - children dying of cancer, civilians dying from war, people dying from malnutrition. Brown's death wasn't one of the sad, tragic deaths that day.

[xzins]

Since it’s his own police chief who said he didn’t yet know, I’m going with his own chief.

[Straight Vermonter]

Let's try this again.

Here's the post I responded to: My limited knowledge of case law, very limited, leads me to believe that if the cop cannot demonstrate Imminent Threat, he's a candidate for Murder II.

My response was that the question of the cop being in imminent danger is the only thing that matters. The robbery at the store is not relevant. Many people on threads on this topic (including this one) seem to think that the cop should/could have shot the kid just for the robbery. That would be an execution.

execute [ek-si-kyoot]
verb (used with object), executed, executing.
4. to murder; assassinate.

[xzins]

There are imaginable scenarios in which the cop would not be found guilty or an executioner. We still don’t have the policeman’s side of the story.

[Straight Vermonter]

There were many sad, tragic deaths that day

True but this one was done by an agent of the government. We should all be very vigilant about letting them have that power. History tells us they don't stop with killing street criminals.