And the take away should be?
Because the message I am hearing....it's perfectly okay to commit a strong armed robbery, disobey an officer of the law and it's acceptable to assault a police officer.
Mike Brown should have been permitted to continue skipping down the street ....
Mike Brown was no saint, no innocent cherub. He's not the one to be held out as some sacrificial lamb that was slaughtered in the street.
No! The take away should be ....STOP committing violent crimes. When caught, surrender, don't flee, don't attack officers, don't reach for their guns. It's dangerous and by doing so ....death is a very real possibility.
All IMO
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Of course it's not okay to commit strong-armed robbery, nor is it acceptable to assault a police officer. I don't think anyone has stated that either of these crimes are okay.
Officer Wilson was justified in
pursuing Mike Brown. But was he justified in killing him? That's the all-important question.
At this point in time, though, we don't know whether or not Mike Brown may have been surrendering when he was fatally shot by Officer Wilson.
It's one thing for a police officer to pursue a suspected felon. It's a whole 'nother thing for that officer to shoot & kill a suspected felon, especially when several witnesses claim that MB was allegedly surrendering when he was shot & killed.
One side says this, the other side says that... but until all the facts are known, the truth is anybody's guess at this point.
If MB was charging at Officer Wilson when the fatal shots were fired, the forensic evidence (ballistics trajectory, GSR evidence, autopsy x-rays, etc.) will provide information to help determine whether or not it was a justified shooting.
If MB was not charging at Officer Wilson when those final shots were fired, but was indeed surrendering when he was fatally shot, then MB's family, as well as the public, deserves to know the truth.
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