Officer Wilson recounts struggle with Brown

Yes and Wilson knew he had just committed a felony robbery, using violence, and had now just attacked him going fro his weapon and was now fleeing, so he could have shot him in the back as he fled.

That being said the shots were to the front as he rush him.

You do NOT have to wait until you sustain a serious injury to defend yourself and neither do the police when they are trying to apprehend a criminal and especially when that criminal is attacking him. That he sustained injuries just further proves the threat he faced.

Go educate yourself on the law.

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And if it is a police officer trying to arrest you I hope you have your will drawn up and funeral expenses pre-paid.

 

And I cited to you the SCOTUS ruling that says the seriousness of the felony must be considered. I agree, crushing the "orbital socket" of a police officer is enough. I've stated that a hundred times. But I've also said that we haven't seen the evidence of that injury.

 

Yes, and? A violent felon who is threatening the public and a police officer.

You don't have to sustain an injury and neither does a police officer carrying out his duty to apprehend violent felons.

 

Agreed, but, as you just mentioned, we don't have all the facts here. Best to let the authorities, both Federal and local, finish their investigation and provide the facts before declaring judgment for or against either Brown or Wilson.

Obviously, there are several here who want this case to either disappear or go to a jury before the investigation is complete, but that isn't just nor the American way.

 

Then all someone has to do is give a cop a wedgy and it will cost him his life. There's a lot of room for interpretation. That's why the evidence is so important.

 

That's exactly my point, sir. We have not seen the evidence of the cop's injury. We do not know as a matter of fact that he even hit him. We read a news story from an unnamed source that says he has a broken orbital socket. I believe it. I think he got clocked. But at the time he shot Brown, I don't believe it was his only option. He was too far away, unarmed and likely wounded.

 

How in the world does a police office know that the person giving them a wedgy is just joking? All they'd know is someone is attacking them from behind and reaching in their pants.

 

And of course Michael Brown was stoned out of his gourd:

 

Many people want to give Wilson a pass because he was within a legal right to shoot, provided of course that Brown had committed the felony of assaulting the officer. If it is legal, does that really make it right? Under those circumstances, could he have done something different?

 

Thanks, but while I agree we don't know the extent of Officer Wilson's injuries (despite the fake photo and story that was "leaked"), you are speculating about his options. Regardless of his face was broken or merely bruised, if Brown attacked Wilson, that's felonious assault. In such a circumstance, anyone is allowed to protect their life even if their name is Zimmerman.

While we can talk about theoreticals, anyone who says, with definition, that Wilson or Brown are guilty or innocent of anything is an idiot for jumping to conclusions before all the facts produced.

 

He was the prime suspect in a felony robbery along with the felony assault on the police officer. Yes it was legal and his duty to either apprehend or stop the criminal he was trying to apprehend.

 

Given the contraction of THC we are probably talking hash oil which isnt just safe pot and can make you flip your (*)(*)(*)(*)ing goard.

 

Friggin worms, all of them.

 

Like what shoot to wound? Cops are trained to shoot center mass for a reason. So some single mother walking home to her kid 50 yards away doesnt get shot in the head because the cop missed.

 

Yea that good smoke will make you want to go out and jump on a cop.

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I agree 100%.

 

Science denier.

 

Again, I agree, however what is legal isn't always right. We're not going to take away their non-lethal tools and allow them to shoot everyone that assaults them.

 

No, he wasn't a suspect in a robbery. Wilson had no idea that had just happened. Again, if the assault on the officer warranted being shot, I support the shooting. But for now, we have no idea. We were told via unnamed source that he sustained an injury. We haven't seen the injury. We haven't seen any evidence of it at all. Some believe that to be the case, but it is not an established fact. It hasn't even been fully adjudicated yet.

 

No, like use non-lethal force such as his baton, pepper spray or taser. Why else do they carry them, for people that are not combative?

 

Actually the story of events and pictures of the officers bruised face are on the internet along with the reporting of physical evidence supporting the officers story.

 

[video=youtube;jNRtU5cHLC0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNRtU5cHLC0[/video]

 

The photos are fake. The report of his injuries is from an unnamed source. I know the facts, sir.

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Look up the use of force continuum. We'll chat when you're done.

 

We are in agreement. If someone 6'4' 292 lbs punches me in the face hard enough to fracture my orbital socket then tries to grab my gun, I like anyone else would be in fear of my life. Anyone who's not has only watched a fight on TV. Like with Zimmerman the truth will come out in the trial if the grand jury indicts.

 

Where is the photo of Officer Wilson's face?

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Where is the proof of this fracture.

 

Exactly! And once I saw Zimmerman's injuries, and listened to that tape of him screaming for his life, and listened to the testimony of everyone who said it was either Martin or Zimmerman; I concluded Zimmerman was in real danger and he did the legal thing and the right thing. You have a moral obligation to your family to survive, and to yourself. You don't have to take a beating and die without a defense.