[quote=Guilty Spark]
Level a small country? A single Kennedy Class Aircraft Carrier has the power to win a war with over half of the countries in the world by itself, we have the military power to devastate continents.Edit: Didn't notice there were five pages.
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It's fine. Nothing of any remarkable intelligence has occurred over the past few pages so I haven't bothered. :lol

[i]Facts[/i]
-- No gunshot residue indicates the shots were medium range or greater.
--There are varying eye witness accounts.
--The head shots were likely execution moves. (Officers should aim not to kill, but disable. The order to kill is only if their life is directly threatened and Brown held no ranged weapon on his person. Combined with the lack of residue this is indicative of either ridiculous incompetence or insane callousness.)
--The early protests turned violent. (Throwing objects at police officers counts as violence. Don't even play dumb.)
--State Troopers managed to calm the protestors down a little, but there's still sporadic violence.
--Rampant looting is occurring which the protests are inevitable protecting, whether or not they wish to is irrelevant to that fact.
--Reporters were roughed up and arrested by the police. In combination with the shitty firing protocol, this is indicative of further massive incompetence on the part of the local police.

tl;dr: This entire situation is massively overblown and the media are blowing it up even further to get views. That's what they do. That is their job. 

The simple fact of the matter is this: We don't know the precise details and we likely never will. The evidence that is there indicates that the officer should at least be taken down until this situation is resolved. The protests need to stop and something more productive take their place. People need to behave rationally rather than emotionally to resolve this. Except that won't happen, and I know it won't, but I can amuse myself and keep watching in the dim hope that maybe, just maybe, somewhere, in that mob and amongst the police, a brain cell will fire, telling them that they should, I dunno, cooperate more.

Like the state troopers marching amongst the protestors. That is an example of a brain cell firing.

Good luck seeing that happen enough times to actually have something productive come of this now.