It was an SUV and seat (and thus officer's butt and holster) would be higher than in a regular car.
But we don't know his arm span at this time. Many men have "tryannosaur" arms like myself and must get my suits tailored because of it.It was an SUV and seat (and thus officer's butt and holster) would be higher than in a regular car.
And Brown was a big guy and arm span correlates with height. Of course, if we go into his "ape index" we would merely inflame PC nuts like with "niggardly", "tar baby" or "master/slave" disks and cylinders.
This is getting ridiculous. Definition of any kind of robbery includes use of force - that distinguishes it from theft. So when the police used the words "strongarm robbery" that means that he forcibly stole property without a weapon. And lo and behold, that is precisely what the store video shows. What are the chances?
Why would Wilson pull Brown into the SUV and shoot him ... over jaywalking? That scenario is much more ridiculous and far-fetched than the other alternative.
What he was thinking is far less important than how he was acting.
As defined in the code. I quoted that specific section of the code because what Brown did at the store fits that description.
Huh? Are you denying that what Brown did fulfills the definition of 2nd degree robbery or are you merely saying that we can't use specific crimes as described in the criminal code until a prosecutor decides to charge somebody? Both claims would be wrong by the way.
Read the Missouri code. There are two degrees of robbery. When police talks of strongarm robbery they mean one of them, not petty theft.
He probably just tried to give Z "whoop ass" but Z was still within his rights to defend himself.
I did mention the unknown "ape index" but the fact still remains that taller people tend to have longer arm span as well.
Source?
Actually, her decision to bypass the Grand Jury was because she was appointed as special prosecutor to the case by Governor Scott supported by GA Pam Bondi, after SA Wolfinger (SA for Seminole County)stepped down from the case. The pressure was placed on her as directly appointed to the case (Special Prosecutor) by the highest State authority to go to the jugular from the get go. She inherited of a "hot potato" case the previous SA dropped. Further, you seem to forget that she filed her affidavit which was to demonstrate to a Judge there was sufficient probable cause to press charges. Judge Mark Herr, Seminole County, found her affidavit to support probable cause to be sufficient. You seem to not be aware of which judiciary branch process takes place for an SA in Florida to obtain validation of charges based on proving probable cause.
Your remark indicates that you are liberally assuming that a Grand Jury would have returned a no charge conclusion. As if it were a fact that they would have. You still seem to confuse your assumptions and speculations as meaning a fact. Especially as Corey's affidavit was validated by a Judge concluding there was sufficient evidence for probable cause.
Showdown time, Derec : your long term history observed by many of us is your propensity to confuse posters who are critical of Israeli policies for being antisemitic. To confuse posters who disagree with your interpretation of the Marissa Alexander case for being gender bias. Now to claim that Athena's attempts to focus this discussion on what she has evaluated to be the actual crux of this case( and her focus being fully supported by me) as being the product of the "pro Brown side which is very certain that Wilson "murdered" Brown or that Wilson was a racist". Anyone paying attention to what I developed on to support what is the actual crux of this case can hardly make a case that there is any portraying on my part of Officer Wilson having "murdered Brown" or that he is a racist.
I did not single any individual out here. But that is a very common attitude among the Brown supporters on the Internet and on the streets of Ferguson.
What you call the "crux of the case" didn't occur in a vacuum. What happened immediately before matters a great deal.
How so?
Given our society's hysteria over political correctness the term is perhaps a bit unfortunate but "ape index" is what the ratio or arm span to height is actually called.
Since I never claimed that it "occurred in a vacuum" but was very specific as to my argument being based on threat assessment changing according to a change of circumstance, what are you talking about? Is this a case of you not taking the time to carefully read which reasoning has been expanded on to support an argumentation? It might be in your best interest and interest of other posters who take the time to explain their reasoning with specifics worthy of being noticed, for you to reflect before you click on reply.
What that indicates is to which extent folks who trust reporters to abide to terms and conditions regarding their statements, should not trust them. Why? Because reporters are notorious for serving their self interest, which is to captivate the attention of a wider audience. Again sensationalism wins over accurate quoting and accuracy of information presented to the public .
The one other thing that you don't read about is Brown going after the cop the first time, you know, as in charging or attacking. Cop stops, then there is a scuffle, which implies cop is right on top of Brown's location, which could help add the context of what really transpired.
if he was outside the car, then he wasn't inside the car wrestling the gun away
one, he was 25 feet away by that point. Two, according to the claim I was responding to, he was also temporarily deaf and disoriented
His head was not inside the car, just his arms.
He must have extremely long arms then because otherwise, if his head is outside the car, I don't see how it would be physically possible for Mike Brown to have been reaching for the police officer's holstered gun as people are claiming he was.
