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Well the civil suit on the wrongful death in Ferguson of Michael Brown has settled. How a thug beating on a police officer thru the car door can be found NOT in the wrong when he was shot and killed is beyond me.

He was a known bully, he had pursued others to beat them up for money yet the City that had no funds to do so is now required to pay for a 'Wrongful Death'.

Our courts are a shameful mess.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-brown-ferguson-missouri-settlement-wrongful-death-lawsuit/
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Like many such cases the evidence is open to interpretation. We must all remember that. People have a tendency to see what they want to see.

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Problem with this is the floodgates are wide open. This will lead to other civil cases costing millions that either cannot be paid or eat the already tight courts time for no actual good.
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Whether or not Michael Brown had done wrong or not is not at all part of the case.
The point is he was never a deadly threat, and there was no excuse for emptying a 17 shot Glock on him at the distance it happened at.

Too bad it never went to trial, because then we would know more for sure.
As it is, it is just a 1.5 million dollar insurance settlement, just like some car accident.
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You will be put in jail but beating up a cop especially when there are other cops there should not end in death. You don't bring a knife or gun to a fist fight and up the ante as a citizen, the same rule should be for cops before they shoot and kill. Goes double through a car door, that is absurd to think a person should be killed for that.
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There have been supporting witness that noted Brown did NOT raise his hands in surrender rather he flipped his arms up while throwing curses at the police officer to the end result he had started to run back toward the officer suspicion for more of the same beating then was subsequently shot.

Those witness were NOT called for under the settlement, they were supposedly present at the initial hearing where the officer was found NOT AT FAULT. Older African Americans that had no pride in their fellow citizens responses were these witness.
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So witnesses don't tell different stories to what they see, if black and supportive to the victim, you are older and have no pride and you were a witness to what?
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No matter what happened, no one should be dead.
And there is something wrong when someone empties a 17 shot Glock.
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No doubt, back up was coming, Brown had no gun, get in your damn car, roll the windows up and lock the doors if you can't handle it, Brown wasn't going anywhere to soon.
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quote:

Noserose wrote:

Like many such cases the evidence is open to interpretation. We must all remember that. People have a tendency to see what they want to see.



True. They tend to see what they want to see based on their biases, if they have any.

Those who are biased toward the police tend to see the case as one where a cop defended himself using necessary force.
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