"Manner of walking in roadway" were black....... thats just the MANNER in which someone WALKS. ...
Originally Posted by shanm
Actually "Manner of walking in roadway" is how the criminal charge is worded.
Someone would have to pull the file generated from the citation/arrest and determine from the officer's report what the person charged/arrested was doing that was a violation of the law. Someone didn't do that.
Example: Michael Brown and his partner in the store robbery just before Wilson saw him were walking down the middle of the street, and Officer Wilson asked them to get out of the middle of the street and walk along the side of the street (on the sidewalk or wherever out of the street). In that case "Manner" = walking in the middle of the street.
Here is the applicable Kansas Statute Michael Brown was violating before he committed the felony of aggravated assault on a police officer ...
Kansas Transportation Code § 8-1537. Same;
use of roadways.
(Pedestrian movements in roadways directed)
(a) Where a sidewalk is provided and its use is practicable, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway.
(b) Where a sidewalk is not available,
any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall walk only on a shoulder, as far as practicable from the edge of the roadway.
(c) Where neither a sidewalk nor a shoulder is available, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway s
hall walk as near as practicable to an outside edge of the roadway, and, if on a two-way roadway, shall walk only on the left side of the roadway.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in this article, any pedestrian upon a roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1537; July 1."
Now, just to clear the air, see in the photo below of Michael Brown lying in the road after having been justifiably shot by Officer Wilson that there is a SIDEWALK ...
A tragedy. But Michael Brown was apparently one of many Black people in Ferguson who felt they were above the law and could do as they please, including robbing stores, beating police officers, and ignoring a police officer's request to walk where the law requires him to walk without attacking the officer, trying to take his weapon, and beating him in the face. It is a tragedy he died, but he could have avoided dying on that day.