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  • Darth Executor
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    Originally posted by square_peg View Post
    Not really. Wilson did acknowledge that Brown held his hands up at some point early in the confrontation, so it's understandable that in the heat of the moment, some witnesses incorrectly remembered it as hands held in surrender rather than whatever it was for. So it's not "ALL bs." You act as if the citizenry all conspired to create a movement out of whole cloth, when the truth, as is often the case, is more complex and messy than that. Sometimes people can be genuinely mistaken. People on both sides.
    It's not a conspiracy, just a cultural imperative to back him up because he's black. Note that the black witnesses who supported Wilson's account did not go public with it, and for good reason. The social backlash would have been enormous.

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  • fm93
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    Not really. Wilson did acknowledge that Brown held his hands up at some point early in the confrontation, so it's understandable that in the heat of the moment, some witnesses incorrectly remembered it as hands held in surrender rather than whatever it was for. So it's not "ALL bs." You act as if the citizenry all conspired to create a movement out of whole cloth, when the truth, as is often the case, is more complex and messy than that. Sometimes people can be genuinely mistaken. People on both sides.

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  • KingsGambit
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    Are people still actually saying this?

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  • Cow Poke
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    Whaddya wanna bet the leftist idiots shrug this off and STILL carry on the "hands up" idiocy?

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  • Cow Poke
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    That's it!

    Drag JimL in here and WHACK that little tudball's hiney!!!!

    Originally posted by JimL View Post
    The heart of the matter is whether or not Brown was surrendering when he was shot dead. The witnesses say that he was. Wilson on the other hand didn't file a report, and the County investigators have not released any details. There is only one reason for that, and that reason is a cover-up so that they can counteract any incriminating evidence that might emerge in the interim.

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  • seer
    started a topic Hands Up Don't Shoot!

    Hands Up Don't Shoot!

    Was all BS!

    According to the report, “there are several individuals who have stated that Brown held his hands up in an unambiguous sign of surrender prior to Wilson shooting him dead [but] their accounts do not support a prosecution of Wilson.”

    “As detailed throughout this report, some of those accounts are inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence; some of those accounts are materially inconsistent with that witness’s own prior statements with no explanation, credible for otherwise, as to why those accounts changed over time. Certain other witnesses who originally stated Brown had his hands up in surrender recanted their original accounts, admitting that they did not witness the shooting or parts of it, despite what they initially reported either to federal or local law enforcement or to the media. Prosecutors did not rely on those accounts when making a prosecutive decision,” said the report.

    The report also admitted that the police officer’s description of the incident was confirmed by witnesses.
    http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/04/ho...aim-was-bogus/

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