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In reply to the discussion: Here we go again-St Louis policeman kills 18-year-old, reviving Ferguson tensions [View all]Travelman
(708 posts)Who do we believe? The facts and reason.
The one who claimed that he only had a sandwich wasn't even there. That was his cousin who came along later. She just flat-out made up the claim about the sandwich, based upon the notion that he had indeed visited a sandwich shop earlier in the evening.
The police recovered the gun at the scene. They recovered three slugs fired at the scene, presumably fired from that gun (doubtless they will test these for ballistics). They will certainly test the gun for fingerprints. They will surely test the guy's hand(s) for gunshot residue at autopsy.
Now, you can either try to pretend that this is a gigantic cover-up, that the police came along and planted a gun on this guy, planted his fingerprints on the gun (assuming that they are found on it), planted GSR on his hand(s) (again, assuming that they find it), planted the slugs that were recovered, and just as a big cherry on top, got this guy caught in a gun charge just a few months ago, AAALLLLLLLL in the name of a great, big conspiracy to create an excuse to shoot some Black guy for shits and giggles, OR you can deal with the idea that maybe, just maybe, this went down just like they said: young punk, carrying a stolen gun, out when and where he wasn't supposed to be away from his GPS monitoring, awaiting trail on a gun charge, gets spotted by the police, gets into a fight with the cop, pulls his gun and tries to shoot the cop, and he picked the wrong time, place, and opponent for a gunfight.
I don't know about you, but the latter scenario sounds a WHOLE lot more plausible than the former one.