Protestors in Feguson block traffic, cause accident

[TorchTheWitch]

39. Brown was not shot because he was jaywalking

For heaven's sake can we finally stop pretending that his robbing the store moments beforehand had nothing to do with it? It had EVERYTHING to do with it. It was the whole reason why Wilson stopped them a second time after letting them go on their way after the initial stop concerning their walking in the street - not jaywalking.

The only reason to be walking in the street instead of on the sidewalk is to be an obnoxious git forcing drivers to wait on your strolling ass that has no business thwarting traffic and causing unnecessary danger.

Jaywalking is crossing a street between intersections or outside a designated crosswalk. It is illegal in most jurisdictions though outside of big cities it's generally overlooked as long as the pedestrian yields to traffic because designated crosswalks and intersections in close proximity to each other aren't the norm in suburbia... one can walk for miles before coming to an intersection, and even the main roads can go for a mile or more between intersections. In big cities though you may very well be stopped by police for jaywalking or crossing against a light because of the much higher level of danger to pedestrians and drivers especially on most big city streets where available parking is dear in order to cross the street between intersections one would need to step immediately into traffic from between parked cars.

I've seen people many times in Philly attempting to jaywalk or cross against the light when thankfully even strangers have yanked them back on the sidewalk before they got smeared all over the road. You take your life in your hands jaywalking or crossing against a light in big cities, and police will stop you for it if they catch you. Though I've never heard of anyone being arrested for it I have overheard the police "What the hell, do you have a death wish?" lecture more than once.

Interesting you compared shop-lifting (robbery) to littering or jaywalking. Just so happens that Brown committed a robbery just before the incident with Wilson. And his "shop-lifting" (yeah it's just some minor thing like littering or jaywalking... pfffttt) included physically threatening the clerk in the store that tried to stop the robbery which makes his strong-arm robbery a felony.

So when Wilson stopped Brown and Johnson because he realized that Brown fit the description of the person that just robbed the store which one of them had the most interest in not having to confront the other? Brown and Johnson would have known why Wilson stopped them the second time whether he said anything about it or not, and Brown had every reason to not be arrested for a felony robbery seeing as what that would do to his immediate future not to mention the rest of his life. Having to go to prison for a felony rather puts a damper on one's future both short and long term. But we're supposed to believe that Brown who only moments before being stopped by Wilson just physically assaulted a store clerk in order to leave the store with what he'd stolen that it was Wilson for no reason at all attacked Brown as Johnson claimed. Yeah, right.

I'd bet my last dime that it was Brown that assaulted Wilson in the cop car in an attempt to avoid arrest hence why shot/s were fired inside the car and would explain Wilson's minor injuries in which case the shots fired inside the car were justified. As for the shots fired out on the street after Brown was shot once or twice in the police car we still don't know what happened. But we do know that Brown didn't commit some minor "shop-lifting" crime similar to littering or jaywalking and we also know that his strong-arm robbery 10 minutes before he was killed had everything to do with the incident and not some jaywalking or walking in the street nuttery.