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Stultus Maximus posted:And was so dangerous despite having no weapons that he had to be shot 35 feet away. 8 shots hitting a target running away at 12 yards with a pistol, that's some extremely impressive shooting if true. I'd bet powder traces on the victim and police car will reveal that shots started much closer.
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Is that a gun in his hand? I guess he wasn't so "unarmed" after all!! 
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Aug 15, 2014 15:30
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http://mrconservative.com/2014/08/47452-leaked-pictures-of-mike-brown-show-who-he-really-was/ Am I the only white person that flips off his friends and used to think he was tough in high school? Heck, my co-worker is in his mid fifties and we flip each other off all the time.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:31
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on the left posted:8 shots hitting a target running away at 12 yards with a pistol, that's some extremely impressive shooting if true. I'd bet powder traces on the victim and police car will reveal that shots started much closer. What would be the point of saying he shot him running away? That's about as bad as it can get. The only thing worse would be killing him while he was on the ground. You could at least lie and say he was advancing.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:31
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:http://mrconservative.com/2014/08/47452-leaked-pictures-of-mike-brown-show-who-he-really-was/ Holy poo poo at these pictures this guy was definitely black
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Aug 15, 2014 15:34
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jackofarcades posted:What would be the point of saying he shot him running away? That's about as bad as it can get. The only thing worse would be killing him while he was on the ground. You could at least lie and say he was advancing. If you say you shot while he was running away, you're not shooting an unarmed teen, you're "firing upon an escaping fugitive"
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Aug 15, 2014 15:35
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bencreateddisco posted:cigars Oh come on. ... I mean he's like twice...three times Brown's size? ....Just convict the guy already.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:35
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Feel bad for the backwards talking guy from Twin Peaks though
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Aug 15, 2014 15:38
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bencreateddisco posted:cigars Is this doofus wearing sandals?
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Aug 15, 2014 15:38
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Is this doofus wearing sandals? with socks.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:39
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:with socks. a crime punishable by death by the fashion police
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Aug 15, 2014 15:39
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:with socks. Crimes against fashion are punishable by death. edit: DAMMIT!!!
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Aug 15, 2014 15:40
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bencreateddisco posted:cigars Michael Brown's body in the street: http://i.imgur.com/J4bMwXb.jpg Looks like he's wearing the same clothes, sandals
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Aug 15, 2014 15:41
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Fried Chicken posted:I get "that page doesn't exist", what are you going for? They're shots of the police report, where they name Brown and Dorian Johnson as the suspects.   Has anyone released any info about Wilson? Nicknamed "Prezbo" by his squadmates, Wilson was a well-liked...
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Aug 15, 2014 15:41
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:Michael Brown's body in the street: http://i.imgur.com/J4bMwXb.jpg I think it's a real stretch to identify the footwear from that photo, it's just a blur.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:43
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:Michael Brown's body in the street: http://i.imgur.com/J4bMwXb.jpg Def looks like him, the footwear is a dead giveaway.
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SirKibbles posted:It's amazing how goons can miss the point consistently,there are white people in photos of the civil rights movement,there were White organizers so maybe just maybe you might be missing a point here? Had something similar happen at the NMOS is Austin. Had a good sized crowd, maybe 100-150 at the Capitol, did some chanting, a couple of folks spoke. One or two RCP people spoke, calling for "communist revolution" and got shut out pretty quick. Some white dude interrupted a black woman speaking about how she's afraid for her son's life with "all our lives are at stake" and got quickly shouted down and corrected. Other than that, it was a good event and the organizers seem to be carrying the momentum forward in applying pressure on the local government regarding incidents of police brutality here in Austin. Picture from the people showing up before the NMOS started: 
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:Michael Brown's body in the street: http://i.imgur.com/J4bMwXb.jpg Where's the hat?
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Aug 15, 2014 15:44
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I think it's a real stretch to identify the footwear from that photo, it's just a blur. check your eyesight you can clearly see the straps
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Aug 15, 2014 15:44
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Def looks like him, the footwear is a dead giveaway. Yeah, I guess it was him. Still no reason to gun the kid down. He could have easily been chased on foot with those sandles and if he got away seems like it wouldn't be difficult to track him down.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:45
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This is all the ammunition the media needs. I can't help but get a sinking feeling.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:46
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:Yeah, I guess it was him. Still no reason to gun the kid down. He could have easily been chased on foot with those sandles and if he got away seems like it wouldn't be difficult to track him down. There are 1000 other things the cop could have done that would not result in the death of an 18 year old with no priors and his entire life ahead of him.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:46
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If that is him, why the gently caress would he do that? Why, just days before going to college, would he decide to rob a convenience store for cigars...? I mean I can see the photos and the similarities, but something just feels really bizarre about the timeline of events, especially considering how long it took them to release the details of this. Why wait until today to release poo poo about the store and the call about the robbery?
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Aug 15, 2014 15:47
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Shadowhand00 posted:Where's the hat? Knocked off in the alleged struggle, fell off while running, etc.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:47
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On Terra Firma posted:If that is him, why the gently caress would he do that? Why, just days before going to college, would he decide to rob a convenience store for cigars...? I mean I can see the photos and the similarities, but something just feels really bizarre about the timeline of events, especially considering how long it took them to release the details of this. Why wait until today to release poo poo about the store and the call about the robbery? He was 18 and stupid and probably let his buddy talk him into doing something really stupid.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:48
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On Terra Firma posted:If that is him, why the gently caress would he do that? Why, just days before going to college, would he decide to rob a convenience store for cigars...? I mean I can see the photos and the similarities, but something just feels really bizarre about the timeline of events, especially considering how long it took them to release the details of this. Why wait until today to release poo poo about the store and the call about the robbery? coming of age thing, maybe? Last risky thing to do before he 'grows up' and goes to college? I dunno
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Aug 15, 2014 15:48
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The shorts are a completely different length, and possible also much baggier on the store CCTV.
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Yeah I feel like that's gonna be all she wrote here for most people. The clothes definitely look like a match and not many people are going to question the circumstances surrounding the shooting if they think the kid robbed a store beforehand.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:49
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Wasn't the original story via the FPD that the cop stopped him and his friend and told them to get out of the street?
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Aug 15, 2014 15:49
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Maybe Brown was helping him adjust his collar!
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:http://mrconservative.com/2014/08/47452-leaked-pictures-of-mike-brown-show-who-he-really-was/ the "black person wears baggy clothing therefore is scary thug" is a common excuse among right-wingers to justify gunning down unarmed black men, nothing new here. the disturbing implication here is that black people deserve to die because they dress a certain way or identify with a certain culture, its just old-fashioned racism.
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Abisteen posted:Yeah I feel like that's gonna be all she wrote here for most people. The clothes definitely look like a match and not many people are going to question the circumstances surrounding the shooting if they think the kid robbed a store beforehand. this doesn't really change that much, the people who thought the cops were right are still going to think they're right (and this merely justifies their preexisting bias), the people who thought the cops were wrong will still think the cops were wrong this just helps the media and society writ large brush it off sooner rather than actually have a serious discussion of the police but lol if you loving thought that was going to happen anyway in america
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this_is_hard posted:Wasn't the original story via the FPD that the cop stopped him and his friend and told them to get out of the street? I think that was the witness's story. I think FPD just vaguely mentioned a robbery in the area. I am inclined to agree with people here saying this will be enough for most people, which is off course total bullshit and shameful.
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Praseodymi posted:The shorts are a completely different length, and possible also much baggier on the store CCTV. No they aren't. They are the exact same clothes.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:51
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WoodrowSkillson posted:He was 18 and stupid and probably let his buddy talk him into doing something really stupid. The way the report reads, it seems more like an unplanned altercation with the store employees, rather than any kind of premeditated theft. Then he may have walked out with some Swisher Sweets after things got heated.
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On Terra Firma posted:If that is him, why the gently caress would he do that? Why, just days before going to college, would he decide to rob a convenience store for cigars...? If I had to completely speculate, pissed off that he was being accused of stealing the cigars when he handed them to Johnson, so he thought gently caress it?
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Abisteen posted:Yeah I feel like that's gonna be all she wrote here for most people. The clothes definitely look like a match and not many people are going to question the circumstances surrounding the shooting if they think the kid robbed a store beforehand. It also harms the narrative presented of a "gentle giant" who would never harm a fly when he was assaulting a store owner not long before the incident. However it has 0 to do with an unarmed man being gunned down, or the heavy handed response by the PD.
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Aug 15, 2014 15:53
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Maybe he was hopped up on cheap tobacco You know how those people get about their swisher sweets
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Aug 15, 2014 15:53
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Terraplane posted:No they aren't. They are the exact same clothes. The alternative is some sort of Hitman-esque clothes switcharoo or clone shenanigans. by which I mean there is no alternative
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ITT people get really upset about the 'narrative' of an unarmed black teenager being murdered by the cops because it turns out he knocked over a bodega for approximately eight bucks in swishers guess we'll have to find the tipping point for full communism somewhere else
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