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In reply to the discussion: If Darren Wilson isn't charged with murder, we will have normalized legal police murder. [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)All three start at various points of the confrontation. The most damaging is the woman in my opinion, but there are three people who are not related, and did not know each other.
http://fox2now.com/2014/08/14/witnesses-to-michael-browns-shooting-detail-his-last-minutes/
Three people who tell in essence the same story.
As I have posted before. No matter what Michael Brown is now accused of, no matter what happened in the window of the car. Here is the most vital undeniable fact. All three witnesses say he turned around and held his hands up after the second shot. That is the fact, he was surrendering. Now, an argument could be made that the force was justified right up until that point. If Officer Darren Wilson had ceased fire at that point and taken Michael Brown into custody, we would not be seeing the protests, the anger, the fury.
Darren Wilson did not stop there. He fired again, and again, and again. He rapid fired his pistol until Micheal Brown lay dead in the street.
From the point in which Michael Brown raised his hands, the use of deadly force was no longer justified by any stretch of imagination. That is the instinctive signal of surrender. That is the international symbol of surrender. Michael Brown was unarmed, and surrendering.
Under International law, that is murder. By the laws of war described in international treaties, that is murder. By the laws of every civilized nation, that is murder. Those are the facts. The investigation by police of police often comes up with conclusions that boggle the imagination. That is the power of police, and why it is always a bad idea to have them investigate themselves. If the Grand Jury does not vote to indict Darren Wilson, it is because the Prosecutor spent more time about Michael Brown being a bad guy than Darren Wilson.
We may not know all the fine points of detail that are needed before the case is closed. But we know this. We know it because three witnesses have told their stories to us and all three are unanimous on that one vital fact. Michael Brown was killed while holding his hands up. That my friend, means that there can be no claim of justified force. A person surrendering is not supposed to be shot. We have laws about that, now is the time to find out if those laws apply to all of our men, or just those who are not blessed to wear the badge of immunity from responsibility.