I'm with you on that! Leave them where they are and let the rest of us get on with our day. I have too much to do than to listen to the hatred coming out of Ferguson.

I finally got around to looking into this last night. this is what I found:

*The man who was shot not kid he was 18 had robbed a store right before he his police encounter. However, it has been stated the police officer did not know this at the time he approached the person. The stated reason for approaching Mr. Brown was that he and his friend were walking down the road. This is in line with the statement from Mr. Browns friend.

*Here is where the incident starts to get fuzzy. According to Mr Browns friend the police officer pulled up and then went to open his door, apparently he and Mr. Brown were to close to the car for the officer to open the door fully according to the statement made by Mr. Browns friend the door hit both Mr. brown and himself and when the police officer could not get out of his car he grabed mr. brown through the window.

*The police officer said Mr. brown reached into the window. According to Mr. Brown's friend and another witness who moved into the area about one month ago the officer reached out of the car and pulled Mr. Brown into the window.

*According to Mr. Browns friend the officer threatened to shoot Mr. Brown twice who was struggling to break free. Mr. Brown apparently did a number on the cop in his attempt to break free.

*According to the police officer Mr. Brown went for his gun and the gun went off and Mr. Brown was hit by the bullet (this is where the police officer says Mr. brown was grazed) and Mr. brown broke free. The autopsy report does not line up with this because there was no gun powder residue found on Mr. brown's body in ether of the two autopsies.

*According to witnesses(Mr. Browns friend and the new resident) the the police officer started shooting at Mr. Brown after he left the vehicle from behind and Mr. brown was grazed. He made it to the middle of the road. Both witnesses say Mr. Brown turned around to surrender but then the cop continued shooting. Mr. Brown's friend said the officer never told Mr. brown to freeze before shooting at him.

*According to both autopsies, Mr. Brown was hit a total of 6 times 4 in the arm and two in the head the two shots that entered his head entered from above his head and were determined to be the cause of death. The autopsies determined he was either leaning down to give up or charging at the point he received the wounds determined to be the cause of death. All bullet entry wounds were determined to be front entry wounds.

*Mr. browns friend said he was shot down like an animal.

*The new resident said there was panic after the officer killed him and shock as it sunk in to the officer what he had done and the officer started to pace around. The new resident got video footage of the aftermath which supports this statement.

*According to the new resident, the police took her camera saying it was evidence and only released the robbery footage despite the fed having told them not to release it. I'm guessing the feds did not want this footage released because it was could be considered an unrelated crime and because it might make it harder to find a non biased jury after such a release). I'm guessing the police released it because they want to put an end to the image of the police killing an innocent boy.

Now in the after math the police have been using tear gas to dispel the riots protest and lootings that have been taking place since the news of the shooting took place. They have even gone as far as to arrest reporters who just doing their jobs. The police truly have gotten out of hand in this incident trying to put curfews on protest and gassing citizens with tear gas including children. Yesterday the national guard was called in.

Personally, I think the national guard should have been there already and all police should have been placed on paid leave until the incident was sorted out. if it was determined after due process the police officer were to be found guilty of shooting an unarmed man then he should then as part of his penalty which should be jail time also have to pay back all money received from paid leave.

In my opinion it Mr. Brown was perfectly warranted if the police officer truly did threaten to shoot him while holding him in the window to go for the officers gun, I would consider this self defense, I mean, honestly, what would you have done.

I don't know about you but if I were shot 3 or 4 times I would probably start to fall forward to give up or in shock and if I had my wits about me probably charge the officer in desperation to try and end the shooting.

Police should never be allowed to arrest reporters who are reporting on what they deem to be newsworthy.

It's my opinion that the police should never be allowed to investigate an incident police a police officer was involved in. I feel the moment this became an issue where an unarmed person was by a police officer shot it should have made it a federal matter and the national guard should have been called in.

I also personally I think curfews or hours of protest should never be allowed to be instated. Though it may seem inconvenient or unsafe to have to control crowds all day and night, who is to say what hours you can stand up for your rights or make public pleas for justice! This hours of protest BS is something I have been noticing lately over several cases and is something I feel should be stopped immediately.

Finally, I think an end should be put to police officers taking peoples phones and cameras as "evidence" when they film incidents related to crime. This should be considered property of the person filming the footage. A camera should be considered property of the person who owns it and a warrant should have to be issued for an officer to search your phone. However, police should be able to ask for or to receive footage in the form of email or other digital file to use as evidence. I am sick of police using this technique to bury evidence. Often times people will never see their phone again.

1st

I hope what I said in my earlier post was not construed to imply that I felt all LEOs were assholes because if it did I can assure you I don't feel this way. I try not to state such wide sweeping generalizations about anyone group of people. If anything I said made you feel this way I sincerely would like to know why. And apologies if I have, I really did not mean to.

2nd.

To address your paragraphs about seeing the world through our own set of eyes and armchair quarterbacking. I am guilty of this and will continue to be so, I feel its a good thing to put our thoughts out there and to have our thoughts challenged. I also feel its a good thing not to ignore situations like the many that have unfolded in Ferguson.