Look, the one thing in almost all of these cases that everyone always neglects to think about is how fast these things happen. I was trained to deal with stuff like this and no matter how much training, you cant take away reflexes (survival reflexes). The way things look on paper, witness accounts, personal accounts etc., go in a chronological step by step fashion. They can be mulled over by us and those critiquing them 1000 times and with unlimited time to think through (most famous gunfight in history lasted 18 or 20 seconds and has had thousands of hours of critiques and documentaries written on it. O.K. corral). Heres the problem. This whole thing is measured in seconds, or hundredths of seconds. A brain cannot go from trying to survive one half second to understanding the changes in intentions by the same person thst was trying to get your weapon and kill you a half second before. Even if it was a bit longer the same applies and the cops are just human. Its hard not to blame this kid for this even if he didnt deserve to be shot when he created the conditions that led to his shooting. If it turns out that he turned and had time to announce Im giving up! and the cop had time to process his intentions and then five seconds later shoots him, thats different. I just dont think thats the case. When you find yourself in a situation like this (he grabs for cops gun), no matter how much training, it turns into a fight for survival... you only do from reflex what needs be done to end it. If this is true, the other side of the story. Im surprised that there werent more rounds fired. If a weapon has already been discharged prior to him rushing him the second time, you would have to assume his intent is deadly (to kill the officer). Despite the fact that many people are saying that the cop is trained to take down people without having to shoot them, that only works in certain situations in certain contexts. These are the same people that will say in a fight that size doesnt matter when it absolutely does matter (people that say that have never been in a fight), and brown wasnt very small. We as a society afford our police a certain level of trust concerning their judgements in cases like this because we acknowledge that their job is difficult and dangerous. If all that I have heard and seen about this is true, the burden is not on the cop to justify his actions but rather on the family of brown to explain why they can posibbly think that this was an unjust shooting when all of the evidence so far shows him to be a thug that is soley responsible for causing the conditions that produced his own death.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:52:30 +0000
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