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In reply to the discussion: IN FERGUSON: Police cars, businesses on fire, "much worse than the worst night" in August [View all]FBaggins
(26,998 posts)... that's in no way "minding his own business". It's exactly the opposite.
BTW, since YOU know so much, whose the we you're hiding behind
Pretty much everyone who can read (and isn't in denial) I suppose. Note... I'm not saying that the shooting was justified (I simply don't know)... I am saying that we're all well past the "he was like Trayvon" nonsense that you're now spinning. He wasn't some kid just innocently walking down the street.
Here's an example from your last post: Even last summer reports indicated that Wilson knew nothing about what may have happened at a convenience store!
In five minutes I was able to find the transcript of the police radio traffic proving that wasn't the case. Starting with track 349, you can see the call come in re: the robbery and two officers (22&25) trying to find the suspect. Wilson is officer 21 in that transcript and is clearly listening to the call (and thus the description)... including offering his assistance.
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1370609-radio-traffic.html
Wilson came along -- bully with a gun that he was and is -- and ordered him to get out of the street
A police officer tells someone walking in the street (jaywalking) to get on the sidewalk? Shocking!
It's Trayvon redux.
There's no evidence that Trayvon was a criminal. There's every possibility that he was "minding his own business".
And how do we know with a fair amount of certainty that he was not "minding his own business"
Perhaps english isn't your first or second language. In which case I applaud your multilinguism! For those of us familiar with the language, the phrase actually means something. Something entirely divorced from the possibility that the subject of the statement is literally in the process of leaving the scene of a crime with the items he stole still in his hands.