St. Louis Riots After Cop Kills Unarmed Teen

[gatagato]

The were using the shooting of the unarmed teen (which is being investigated) as an excuse to steal and destroy: people can protest in a civil (or at least non violent) manner, there's never the need to loot random shops in order to make a point.

[clndstn46]

Riots only make things worse??
What the fuck though.
I can think of so many people that should've been killed by cops and weren't. Guys that shoot up movie theaters, guys that shoot up schools, people that abuse children sexually... Not unarmed kids.
It's being investigated but regardless of whether it was wrong or right the cop will get away with it.

[hal0mega]

Well, drink more.

[kellyhound]

yep, free beer is more important than protesting over a teen's death

[bdjackass318]

From St Louis Post Dispatch:

There were at least two versions of the encounter that led to a police officer fatally shooting an unarmed Ferguson teenager on Saturday: one from a young man named Dorian Johnson who told reporters he had been walking with the victim, Michael Brown, and the second from St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar.

The versions agree on some basic facts: The officer approached the teens, who were walking in the street, there was an altercation in or near the car, and the officer fired several shots at the unarmed Brown, who was then several yards away, killing him.

In Johnson’s version, the officer reached out of the car to grab Brown by the throat. In Belmar’s version, which cited his department’s investigation, Brown reached into the car to attack the officer, and struggled to grab his weapon.

DORIAN JOHNSON'S VERSION:

“Me and my friend was walking down the street in the middle of the street. And we wasn’t causing any harm to nobody. We had no weapons on us at all. … A police officer squad car pulled up and when he pulled up these were his exact words: ‘Get the F on the sidewalk.’ … He reversed his … car in a manner to where it almost hit us. … He tried to brush his door open but he was so close to us that it ricocheted off us and it bounced back to him, and I guess that, you know, got him a little upset. And at that time ... he didn’t get out the car, he just reached his arm out the window and grabbed my friend around his neck and … as he was trying to choke my friend, he was trying to get away, and the officer then reached out and he grabbed his arm to pull him into the car. … His weapon was drawn and he said, ‘I’ll shoot you’ or ‘I’m going to shoot,’ and in the same moment the first shot went off. And we looked at him, he was shot, and there was blood coming from him, and we took off running, and as we took off running, I ducked and hid for my life because I was afraid for my life … . My friend kept running and he told me to keep running because he feared for me, too. So, as he was running, the officer was trying to get out of the car and once he got out the car he pursued my friend, but his weapon was drawn. Now, he didn’t see any weapon drawn at him or anything like that. I was going for no weapon. His weapon was already drawn when he got out the car. He shot again and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and put his hands in the air and he started to get down but the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and he fired several more shots, and my friend died. He didn’t say anything to him, he just stood over and was shooting.”

CHIEF JON BELMAR'S VERSION:

“Yesterday about noon in the 2900 block of Canfield, a Ferguson police officer had an encounter with two individuals on the street. In fact, one of those individuals … allegedly pushed the police officer back into the car where he physically assaulted the police officer. It is our understanding at this point in the investigation that within the police car there was a struggle over the officer’s weapon. There was at least one shot fired within the car. After that the officer went back, came back out of the car, he exited his vehicle, and there was a shooting that occurred where the officer in fact shot the subject, and … they were fatal injuries. The entire scene from approximately the car door to the shooting is about 35 feet. There were shell casings recovered, the shell casings are all matched to one weapon, that’s the officer’s weapon. There were more than a few shell casings recovered. I cannot say at this time how many times the subject was struck by gunfire. It’s hard to know, it was more than just a couple but I don’t think it was many more than that.”

[hal0mega]

Originally Posted by kellyhound

yep, free beer is more important than protesting over a teen's death

[St. Geno]

These people are fucking disgusting.

[TheUrinator]

Originally Posted by gatagato

The were using the shooting of the unarmed teen (which is being investigated) as an excuse to steal and destroy: people can protest in a civil (or at least non violent) manner, there's never the need to loot random shops in order to make a point.

I agree with you. But not with the looting. If anything, I would have liked to see them loot the damn police station or government buildings instead of QuickTrip.

[TheUrinator]

How many of you want to bet the police will launch an investigation of themselves and then the results of the investigation (at a cost of several million dollars) will state "The officer reacted appropriately"? I know the routine......

[St. Geno]

Originally Posted by TheUrinator

I agree with you. But not with the looting. If anything, I would have liked to see them loot the damn police station or government buildings instead of QuickTrip.

Or how about they could just teach their young to not get into altercations with police officers