WAIT! So FDP Officer Wilson, whos ILLEGALLY refusing to make a report for fear of being incriminated

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182. you think homicide is a distraction?

Some people are all upset that Brown got killed by a cop. Why shouldn't people be more upset about a dead six year old? Why should I care any more about Mike Brown, who I think assaulted a cop and a store manager, that I do about Angel?

You mention 400 people killed by cops. Uh huh and what about the 14,800 homicides that happened in 2012? You know civilians killed by other civilians. And presumably we hire cops to arrest those murderers. Perhaps some of the murderers try to kill the cops in order to keep from going to prison. If the cops kill a murderer or a rapist or even an armed robber, it's too bad, but not THAT bad.

I mean, I would rather see an armed robber get arrested, tried, goto jail, turn their life around and make a positive impact on the world. But at the same time, I'd rather see a dead armed robber than a dead cop (in general).

84,376 forcible rapes in the US, but never mind that - only COPS are the problem in our country. 354,000 robberies, 760,000 aggravated assaults, almost 9 million property crimes.

But goddamit, crime is just a distraction, trying to keep people from hating cops. Or hating Wilson. 400 people were killed by cops, so never mind 760,000 aggravated assaults.

Well, as far as I am concerned, if somebody is assaulting me, I would not mind at all if a cop came along and killed them.

Of course, cops tend to be like supervisors. There's never one around when you need one (when you are being assaulted, raped, or threatened) and there's always one around when you don't (like when you are driving down the road without a seatbelt on, or have dogs in your car).

No, the point is NOT that you are "being mean to Wilson". The point is that, it seems to me that an attempt was made to make a circumstantial case. Speculating about his past, does not change any of the actual FACTS of what happened when Brown was shot.

And you say it is propaganda to think that police have a dangerous job. Yet they are 10th among all occupations. 10th isn't exactly 97th most dangerous job. And that does not measure the number of times they are shot, shot at, or otherwise attacked in the course of their work.

I tend to think that 400 people, most of them probably violent criminals, killed by cops - is the distraction, compared to the much larger number of people - 14,800 killed by other Americans. Angel, for example, was clearly an innocent victim. Not a distraction to me, but a heartbreaking tragedy. The big picture includes a whole lot of other victims.

But God forbid she (or they) somehow take attention away from Michael Brown.