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Originally Posted by StealthMode
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TL;DR--What makes you feel #4? I'm incredibly surprised to see that comment because every single person I've encountered and comment I've read indicates people feel Wilson should have used a non-lethal way to stop Brown so I can't imagine where that comes from. Care to elaborate? |
This is where the problem is, because people assume that in a high adrenalin situation where you've just been attacked and the person who attacked you tried to take your gun and is now charging toward you, you're going to stop and think "I'm going to shoot him in the knee". I think survival instinct causes anybody to just shoot and stop that person in any way possible. Shooting a moving target is also not going to result in shooting them in one specific body part. Brown was almost twice the weight of Wilson and significantly taller. There's no way Wilson would win a physical fight. Once Wilson was unconscious, Brown would have his gun and would then be armed.
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
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The eye witness accounts of most incidents contradict each other and the statements of the suspect and police officer in any arrest are going to typically contradict each other. That's why you have to focus on physical evidence. The physical evidence showed pretty clearly that Brown tried to grab Wilson's gun in the car and Wilson shot him in the hand. Brown ran and then turned around and started moving back toward Wilson (blood trails show that). Brown was shot in the front, discrediting accounts that he was walking away. The physical evidence is pretty clear and, from what I've read, there was previous precedent from other court cases.
I don't dispute that there is racism resulting in unfair treatment of suspects by police. I'm not convinced this particular incident is the best example to use to demonstrate it.