[kik5150]

From when the gun discharged as he was trying to wrestle it from the officer?

[lee martell]

That makes
“Only A Sandwich” Boy GUILTY as charged of trying to harm an officer. This will really send the jobless protestors into a tizzy. I’m thinking less cameras are out there watching every move by this time.

[sargon]

A black teenager fatally shot last week in St. Louis by an off-duty police officer had gunshot residue on his hands, jeans and T-shirt, according to crime lab results released on Tuesday

That, in and of itself, proves absolutely nothing either way.

[The KG9 Kid]

“Only a sandwich.”

Baloney.

[ArmstedFragg]

Well, it's a well known fact of physics that racism can transmogrify mayonnaise into gunpowder residue. Must have come from that sandwich he was holding. /sarc

[The Duke]

Maybe it was “Skittles residue” that was confused with gunpowder residue?

[Arthur McGowan]

Dindu Nuffins.

[Iron Munro]

Why do police keep shooting innocent black chi’rens?

They are all good boys.

Their mammas love them.

They were all a comfort to everyone in their neighborhooda.

Even the local junk yard dogs were friends with them.

/s

[Jack Hammer]

Surprise - another angelic yute shot while trying to kill someone, then canonized by the mob.

[Moltke]

Cops these days always carry a little bag of gunshot residue as a “plant”. /s

[junta]

Picture of him floating about the net, him with three homies all pointing pistols at the camera, real tools, good riddance.

[Scoutmaster]

Vonderrit did not have a gun. That's plain to see. Vonderitt had guns.

Vonderitt's friend appears to be holding an ingredient for Lean - Purple Drank - Sizzurp.

[SoFloFreeper]

[JoeFromSidney]

citing studies showing young black men are the most likely demographic to be shot by police.

According to the most recent FBI report I've found, cops shoot just over 400 people each year. Of those, just over 300 are white; just over 100 are black. Whites are more at risk than are blacks.

[JoeFromSidney]

The business about gunshot residue reminded me of some work I did while stationed in Thailand back in the 1960s. One of the problems of dealing with an insurgency is identifying who the insurgents are, when they're at home amongst the bulk of the population. It occurred to me that checking their hands for GSR might be one way of doing it. Could we check a whole village in short order, to identify the insurgents who were hiding amongst the rest of the people? I arranged with the Thai Army to let me test a large group of soldiers, and with the Bangkok Police Department to run the tests.

At that time the standard test was the "paraffin test." A low-melting-point paraffin was painted on the subject's hands, using a paintbrush. When it cooled, it was peeled off like a glove. A reagent was applied to the inside of the "glove" after it had been opened up. If there was GSR present, it would show up as blue specks.

We found that we could indeed run a hundred or more people through the test in a reasonable time, which meant that the test was practical. However, we found that almost every person we tested showed positive results, even though we knew most hadn't fired a gun in weeks. It turned out they hadn't washed their hands in weeks, either. We were simply getting false positives.

Well, so much for that idea. The peasants whom we were trying to distinguish from insurgents probably didn't wash their hands either.