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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 03:36 PM Aug 2014

The cop who shot Mike Brown had no idea he was involved in a robbery.

The police chief just admitted that. He stopped Brown for jaywalking...on a residential side street,not a busy street,a residential side street.Just wanted to make that clear.

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The cop who shot Mike Brown had no idea he was involved in a robbery. (Original Post) sufrommich Aug 2014 OP
Clearly a capital offense so heinous it requires immediate conviction and execution. eom MohRokTah Aug 2014 #1
this is a classic 'late friday afternoon' et news drop by the cops big_dog Aug 2014 #2
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2014 #4
that would be BobbyBoring Aug 2014 #3
And the robbery is alleged, too. eom MohRokTah Aug 2014 #5
It's an attempt to sway public opinion... joeybee12 Aug 2014 #6
The media did a pretty good job of convicting Trayvon Martin. wildeyed Aug 2014 #8
Fortunately, there are enough journalists on the ground in Mo right now joeybee12 Aug 2014 #9
Plus they gassed, arrested and even shot one with a rubber bullet. wildeyed Aug 2014 #11
Yeah, the cops have pissed some journalists off... joeybee12 Aug 2014 #12
And very near his home. At least that is what I read here. jwirr Aug 2014 #7
That is mercuryblues Aug 2014 #10
 

big_dog

(4,144 posts)
2. this is a classic 'late friday afternoon' et news drop by the cops
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 03:41 PM
Aug 2014

hoping that it will be less of an outrage going into the weekend news cycle

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
6. It's an attempt to sway public opinion...
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 03:51 PM
Aug 2014

the release of the surveillance video I mean, and a piss poor one at that...and the only people buying it are the racists ON FOX Noise, and the racists WATCHING Fox Noise.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
8. The media did a pretty good job of convicting Trayvon Martin.
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 03:58 PM
Aug 2014

I mean he did smoke pot and maybe got in a fight once :gasp: But teenage boys never do those things, right?

That police department knows they are going to get their asses sued off and that a bunch of people are going to lose their jobs and maybe even go to jail. You are right, this is their shitty attempt to control the narrative by convicting the victim in the media.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
9. Fortunately, there are enough journalists on the ground in Mo right now
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 03:59 PM
Aug 2014

covering this so that it may backfire on them...I hope it does.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
11. Plus they gassed, arrested and even shot one with a rubber bullet.
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 04:07 PM
Aug 2014

So the journalists know the magnitude of assholes they are dealing with. But they are also click whores and need to get people to watch the 24 hour channels, so it will be reported ad nauseam.

mercuryblues

(14,519 posts)
10. That is
Fri Aug 15, 2014, 04:01 PM
Aug 2014

the exact thing I just posted in another thread. Brown was still in the process of walking home from the alleged robbery. There is no way that the police could have gotten to the store, taken a report for the theft of a pack of cigarillos and find Brown in less than 15 minutes.

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