Amazing how quickly the story can change as facts come to light. So anyone still believe the friend's "the cop initiated the physical confrontation by grabbing Brown from a seated position in his patrol vehicle" bullshit story?
The only thing this changes is that Dorian Johnson isn't credible but he wasn't the only witness. The cop initiating physical confrontation from inside the vehicle is much more believable than the story that cops told, that Johnson tried to take the cop's gun who was inside of the vehicle. The truth is likely in the middle.
You're reaching now, MIR, really reaching. Stick to the shooting. That's the more questionable act at this point.
I'm reaching by staying the truth lies in the middle of a story told by a police department that hasn't been forthright with anything that happened that day and a story told by a witness who just committed a crime that put these events in motion? Okay, sure
See bold. That's where you're reaching. Again, stick to the shooting from 35 feet away.
The takeaway line was one you chose not to bold to argue a completely irrelevant point.
Ok, so we're at least moving away from the "the cop started it" bullshit? You're giving up on at least that part of the narrative, right? If so, I'm happy to move on to the "he went for my gun" part of the story.
I don't think I was ever on "the cop started it bullshit." This is a trained police officer whose actions took the life of a person, this isn't a sandbox in 3rd grade, who started it isn't important and it never has been. You have latched onto it because that's really the only ground you have to stand on, you have your basis to call the dead kid a thug, congrats. For the rest of us we are much more interested in how it finished. If Brown pushed the cop it still doesn't justify putting multiple slugs in his back. Protesters don't justify turning an American city into a war zone.
If I was being mean, I'd call you an "illiterate." I have said, repeatedly, that I am skepitcal of the justification for this shooting. I have also said, repeatedly, that Brown very stupidly put himself in a very precarious situation. We should be able to agree on both those points.
The fact that Brown put himself in danger does not excuse the shooting, but it does refute the "black men being hunted in the streets" narrative.