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In reply to the discussion: Was it legal for Darren Wilson to shoot Michael Brown? [View all]Loudly
(2,436 posts)13. I'm sure the word is getting around out there. This was a bad surrender.
After a physical altercation with a cop, you attempt to flee.
Feeling the impact of bullets traveling faster than you can flee, you change your decision from flee to surrender.
You DO NOT turn and face your pursuer with your arms over your head!
If you do that, you look like King fucking Kong ready to rumble some more.
(Especially someone with stats like this guy.)
NO. You do not turn around at all. You immediately lie face down on the ground with your hands behind your head.
Just like the cops would tell you to do if you asked them their preference about how you should present yourself for surrender.
Michael Brown died so that proper survivable surrendering technique might be learned.
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That could be. Although, I want to know more about the first few seconds before saying for sure
Hoyt
Aug 2014
#32
I get that people accept the use of force to catch fleeing felons, but not deadly force
Hippo_Tron
Aug 2014
#44
Well...the Ferguson PD and all of it's good old boys are doing their damdest to make it fit.
FarPoint
Aug 2014
#7
I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you felt the sarcasm tag wasn't necessary
Hippo_Tron
Aug 2014
#24
Historically, racists have compared African American men to apes, like King Kong...
NYC_SKP
Aug 2014
#41
If the autopsy supported the officer's version of events, I believe we would have seen it by now.
wildeyed
Aug 2014
#14