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Originally Posted by Fly Rod
Y do so many people want to have an innocent man Mr. Wilson put in jail?....Completely protecting himself.....Brown commited at leat to crimes...1. robbed a store.... 2. attacked a cop....and there is no knowlege of his past....maybe this was another child that if obama had a boy he would want him to be like Brown.
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I don't think the issue is "throw Wilson in jail" as much as it is "can't we get a fair process."
Walk in their shoes...
You're living in a poor black community and don't have reason to believe the white police are on your side. Your son is set to go to college on Monday and he's killed by the police for what looks to be jaywalking. The investigation is so sloppy it's almost comical and the local PD doesn't even bother to file a police report. Hell, one of the biggest issues, how far he walked before the kill shot wasn't even documented well because the batteries ran out on the camera.
They further try to defame your kids character by leaking video that appears to show him committing theft in an attempt at spin control. The photos of Wilson's wounds show almost nothing. They form a mostly white grand jury and assign a local prosecutor with ties to the department who fails to indict and then goes on TV and takes 20+ minutes to "defend" the officer's actions and characterize your kid as a demon.
Wilson certainly may have been justified in his actions but there's a lot of grey area with this case. I don't blame some for having deep suspicion as to the local PD covering up an abuse of authority.
That doesn't justify criminal protest certainly, but it does highlight how this case has tapped into a much bigger issue.
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