Michael Brown Shooting

This is what a Crosman MK-177 looks like ....

No indictment. Special prosecutor "Piepmeier said although Crawford did not break any laws, the officers were justified in taking the action they did.". The action referred to being shooting to kill. No tasers, no talking...shot in the back.

rgambs said:

No indictment. Special prosecutor "Piepmeier said although Crawford did not break any laws, the officers were justified in taking the action they did.". The action referred to being shooting to kill. No tasers, no talking...shot in the back.

Be interesting to price all footage together and see what this guy did or didn't do. And did the cops give guy chance to respond ?

All this lets me know that even trained cops get it wrong so reason I don't want my neighbor defending me.

callen said:

chadwick said:

toys guns are fucking nuts. guns are not toys. why get a child confused? if you have a house with real guns in it & the kids have toy guns you are asking for it. im saying the chances are greater that there will be a accident. you'd be better off teaching the kids that guns are deadly & not to fuck around.

i remember us brother made toy guns out of wood when we wanted to play war. our real guns were in the house. toy guns are not something i would give my kids. same with the shoot 'em up killing spree, war video games. my 5-10 yr old would not be playing machine gun bloody games on the 55 inch.

call me a strict dickhead all you want, but i am right


& godfather, seeing flesh on the tv is 227% better for us than watching all that violence. we need more boobs & johnson on the tube & less boom, boom your dead & torture scenes

Fuckin poetry Chad.

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http://youtu.be/Ky4uYnsF3kc

One Nation under God
has turned into
One Nation under the influence
of one drug

Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

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our United States of unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
the methadone metronome pumping out
a 150 channels 24 hours a day
you can flip through all of them
and still there's nothing worth watching

T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
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absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
maybe the mother of our Nation
should remind us
that we're sitting to close to. . .

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Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

T.V. is
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Where bears in the woods
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bald eagles

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co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases
watch for the PBS special

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where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
the fastfood culture

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are more important than the words
that come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
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Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

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Does it imitate us or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
twelve years old and we wonder how we've created
a Jason generation that learns to laugh
rather than abhor the horror

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armchair generals and quarterbacks can
experience first hand
the excitement of video warfare
as the theme song is sung in the background

Sugar sweet sitcoms
that leave us with a bad actor taste while
pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
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would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance)
On Television.

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Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation

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we return to our irregularly programmed schedule
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have become standard

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Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
On Television . . .

Peace

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/24/john-crawford-air-rifle-video_n_5878022.html

There is the surveillance video. Not graphic. It appears to me he startled when shouted at, and then he is shot. Indisputable is the fact that he was not holding the weapon in a manner in which it could have been fired. Also indisputable is the fact that he was not menacing the Walmart as the 911 caller claimed, and the fact that officers gunned him down within mere seconds of encountering him. So sad that his life is gone and these people who are supposed to protect us are out there with their itchy trigger fingers itching away.

Excessive force, for sure. Walking around with a pellet gun that looks like an assault rifle in a Walmart is not recommended, but they gave him a one mississippi before opening fire.

We may need to enact the Barney Fife rule where cops get one bullet that they keep in their front pocket. Fuck putting GoPros on cops. They figured out how to handle cops with itchy trigger fingers back in the 50's on a TV show.

Man killed by off-duty St. Louis officer was unarmed, mother says
Police say man had gun, fired three shots at officer


St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson says the 18-year-old, identified by his mother as Vonderrit D. Myers, shot at the officer Wednesday night. Dotson says the officer returned fire. He didn't identify the 32-year-old officer.

Syreeta Myers told The Associated Press by phone Thursday that her son wasn't armed, as police contend.

At a news conference on Thursday, Democratic state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed questioned why the officer approached Vonderrit Myers in the first place. She called it a clear case of racial profiling.

Police Shooting Missouri
St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson outlines the department's use of deadly force while answering questions from a civic committee meeting Wednesday. (Laurie Skrivan/Associated Press)

Dotson said that at one point, the suspect's shirt raised and the officer saw what he thought was a gun. "The officer said he wanted to be certain it was a gun and did not fire at that point," he said.

The chief said the suspect ran up a hill, turned and opened fired on the officer, who returned fire and killed the man. Ballistic evidence shows that the teen fired three shots and tried to fire again but his gun jammed, he said, noting that the 9-mm gun was recovered.

The officer, a six-year veteran of the St. Louis police force whose race wasn't immediately disclosed, fired off 17 rounds. Dotson said he didn't know how many of those bullets struck the suspect, or why the officer, who wasn't hurt, fired that many shots.

"An investigation will decide if the officer's behaviour was appropriate," he said.

Syreeta Myers said her son was holding a sandwich when he was killed, and that he wasn't armed.

'Hands up, don't shoot'

Asked about police claims that there was evidence the young man fired three shots and recovered a 9-mm weapon at the scene, Syreeta Myers said, "Police lie. They lied about Michael Brown, too."

Michael Brown was the unarmed black 18-year-old who was killed on Aug. 9 by a white police officer in nearby Ferguson. Brown's killing was very much on the minds of protesters who gathered after Wednesday's shooting, with some shouting "Hands up, don't shoot" — a common refrain during the weeks of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson.

A state grand jury is deciding if the Ferguson officer, Darren Wilson, will face charges. He has not been seen in public since the Aug. 9 shooting.

Dotson said that the man killed Wednesday night was "no stranger to law enforcement," including since he had turned 18.

Online court documents show that Vonderrit Myers was charged in June in St. Louis with the unlawful use of a weapon, a felony, and misdemeanour resisting arrest. A hearing that had been scheduled for Monday was continued until Nov. 17.

The police chief said some in the crowd Wednesday night shouted obscenities at officers and damaged police cars, but that the officers "showed great restraint."

Unaware of any video

He added: "Any police officer use of force certainly will draw attention."

No demonstrators were arrested and by 1 a.m. Thursday the crowd had largely dispersed.

Dotson said he wasn't aware of any video of the shooting.

"We want to be open and transparent and as thorough as we possibly can," Dotson said.

It was the third fatal police-involved shooting in the St. Louis area since Brown's death. On Aug. 19, Kajieme Powell, 25, was shot by St. Louis city officers after moving toward them with a knife while telling them, "Shoot me now. Kill me now." Both officers fired six shots each. Powell died at the scene.

On Sept. 17, officers shot and killed a 42-year-old man in the St. Louis County town of Jennings after the suspect allegedly slammed his vehicle into two police vehicles before pointing a rifle at officers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/man-killed-by-off-duty-st-louis-officer-was-unarmed-mother-says-1.2793795

Police Officer in Ferguson Is Said to Recount a Struggle

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ferguson-case-officer-is-said-to-cite-struggle.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHeadline&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0