Let me fix up the above sentence so it more clearly reflects the eye witnesses testimony to the grand jury:
That heroic cop in Ferguson, who reluctantly shot a stoned and charging 325 lb., 6ft 2 in, black man - after he and another accomplice had tried to wrestle away the police officer's gun from him while he was sitting in his patrol car, after the officer has asked the pair to refrain from walking down the middle of a multi-lane road during rush hour, claimed he was protecting the citizens that were being held hostage in traffic by the charging man.
Yup, much more accurate now
Originally Posted by Why_Yes_I_Do
Grand Jury? Is that a joke. The Grand Jury was stacked to obtain a No Bill, as is the case in most such cases, including all those in Austin in which cops shoot unarmed men. Call me old fashioned but I still believe in the code of the West that there is nothing more dishonorable than to shoot an unarmed man. In the case of police it's particularly immoral given that they have tasers, batons, and other methods of dealing with drunk or disorderly people who want to fight with them. Of course the cops are always going to pull out their cowardly excuse, "Hey I can't fight with anyone because what if they grab my gun from me!" That's total bullshit.
The cop in Ferguson was about six foot four inches, was in his car when all this started, and had ample means to bring that idiotic disturbance of the peace to an end without killing anybody. He didn't even try. He just went for his gun and killed the guy like the coward he was, and is. And now he's retired because his moronic supporters sent him over $700,000 on a GoFundMe account which he had no need for. He was no victim of anything. The only victim was the idiotic assailant who was high and out of control. The first job of any peace officer is to keep the peace, and that has always meant being able to handle themselves when dealing with drunk, high assholes who are out of control. If they can't do that without resorting to lethal force than they are useless. Furthermore every time a cop does this it costs the city they work for over a million dollars in legal consequences.