Dinh AaronMk said
Dinh AaronMk said
To be right or wrong is a purely subjective thing. You could examine every possible fact, grand or small, and still not come to a conclusion any one action is better than the other or anymore "correct". To assume this matter has moral absolutes just dillutes the Hell out of it.On one side you have Missouri law over whether or not you can shoot someone if they could very possible be armed. For all the officer knew Brown was armed and in any one of the scenarios revealed by eyewitness testimony there was a chance he was reaching for a weapon to shoot the officer. You then have the matter than he did assault the officer, though this in itself would not be grounds to shoot him. However the assumption that he would be armed provided enough grounds for there to be action.On the other side we have a dead 18 year old who we now know was not armed, and could have acted differently to change the course of action (however he was dumb enough to not). This also acts as a platform to discuss Missouri's self-defense laws (which I haven't seen anyone do) and police militarization (which I've only see other police debates discuss actually).In the end it came down to a sample of the local population to make a unanimous decision on the Brown case provided the pages of forensic and physical evidence and hours of often conflicting witness testimony. In the end, it was this body that elected to give a pass on the case and not pass an indictment on which to charge the officer. Because to that end: he was acting inside the law.The unfortunate thing about this case if that it's become too political. And too political for very possibly the wrong reason and on the wrong subject. And now it's blown up.Therefore, it is bullshit and should be swept aside so we can try to argue about something new while keeping our head on straight.


The Nexerus said
The evidence was insufficient for an indictment to be made. Angry mobs don't get to decide guilt and innocence, or who is charged for what crime. The only positive I can salvage from this is that I imagine that the protests/riots, for all of their carelessness and destruction, will at least focus more attention on ensuring transparency and fairness in future police proceedings.
ASTA said
I think when Kidd posted that link, they were trying to dispel the on-going myth that blacks in America are the only racial group in the country that riot over stupid shit. A quick glimpse at the various Yahoo! News articles reporting on the Brown story only reinforces the severity of this misconception. In reality, the media only reports on this stuff because it wants to keep race relations poor between blacks and whites. But at the heart of all of this, it's only ape-dom. Tribal groups vs tribal groups; survival of the fittest. It's less about filthy racists, bonehead Tea Baggers and dirty lib-tards and more about multiple groups of primates giving in to their primal instincts and psychological drives. I say embrace it, honestly. Give in to your inner ape. You can't run from it. So you might as well hone it into a weapon that you can use to forward your own group's goals and interests.
Kidd said
's a relatively objective account, I think. It just kind of sums up everything happening in Ferguson. A (though the media interviewing each one seems skewed left).And of it justifies the 12 rounds shot off, IMO.And to people complaining about the riots: I'mma be a bit of an , lol.