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Michael Brown Shooting

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I'm catching up on this thread over morning coffee. I can't begin to imagine how the family and friends of Michael Brown are living out the time before the funeral.

KatieG said:
His body was left on the street for hours, blanket or no blanket. That was one of the things that outraged so many people.
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Skeptic Ginger said:
[ . . . ]But what people are talking about is not that the body was unattended for hours, what the complaint was, was that the body was left an unnecessarily long time on the street before it was removed.
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I'd like to see the reports on when the corpse was actually moved before making a judgement on 'unnecessarily long time'.
I've seen enough covered corpses waiting to be removed from road accidents; sometimes it takes hours til the order for the levantamiento is given.

My heart always goes out to the family in these circs- from the outside it looks as though necessary procedures are shilly-shallying delays.
Is it possible that's the case here?
 
I was thinking of booking a room for the 2017 eclipse in Feguson. I won't if there will be a three minute riot during the day.
 
LTC8K6 said:
Posts were going around a while ago listing the criminal records of Michael Brown, but it was not the same person.
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We had a case some years ago where a mall cop shot a young black woman. The next day her extensive criminal record was reported in the news. A few days later it came out that the reported criminal history was the combined history of 8 other individuals with the same name. The woman who had been shot had a clean record.
 
OnlyTellsTruths said:
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Gang colors are very real, but the Bloods claim red, although it can vary depending on the ethnic makeup of a neighborhood and probably a whole bunch of things I know nothing about. Here is an article about gangs in Houston written in 2006. It is mostly about Alex, an immigrant from El Salvador who is an aging veteran of the gang wars and has yet to hit 21. It could have been titled "The Kid with the MS13 Tattoo", but the author chose the slightly more provocative "You Don't Want to Know What We Do After Dark".

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/you-dont-want-know-what-we-do-after-dark
 
A team hat on a white person indicates a fan, on a brown person it can only be a gang sign.

Welcome to the logic of bigotry.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
But what people are talking about is not that the body was unattended for hours, what the complaint was, was that the body was left an unnecessarily long time on the street before it was removed.
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But that might have occurred because the FPD decided that every aspect of the crime scene must be recorded and documented before it was disturbed. Or perhaps any one of a dozen different officials from three or four different agencies said "don't touch anything until I get there."

Also, given that most people learn crime scene investigational techniques from fictional TV shows, perhaps the people complaining did not have a clear understanding of how long a controversial shooting takes to investigate.
 
Ladewig said:
But that might have occurred because the FPD decided that every aspect of the crime scene must be recorded and documented before it was disturbed. Or perhaps any one of a dozen different officials from three or four different agencies said "don't touch anything until I get there."

Also, given that most people learn crime scene investigational techniques from fictional TV shows, perhaps the people complaining did not have a clear understanding of how long a controversial shooting takes to investigate.
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When a murder victim was discovered near my home, it took about 10 hours before her body was removed.
 
Mike! said:
No STL Cardinals caps on the list, thank goodness.
I'd hate to get capped just for rockin' the local team. :covereyes
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Yeah, I'm safe in my Cowboys cap. I can't believe the Astros are more popular with gangs than the Cowboys. They just don't get any respect anywhere.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
So we should all pretend we don't have an opinion based on the evidence we do have?

I don't see the forum members who are concluding Brown was a thug who surely attacked Wilson withholding their opinions, do you?
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You said that "if the evidence looks equivocal or ambiguous and they let him go, it will be bad news". I was pointing out that under our system of law, they would have to let him go in such circumstances.
 
One part of the delay was that the FPD called in the SLCPD to do the investigating. I heard mention that it took 40 minutes to arrive. Probably not just rank and file officers, but forensic and investigative personnel needed.
 
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