"Dethorne Graham's subsequent lawsuit against police for his injuries led to a 1989 Supreme Court decision that has become the prism for evaluating how police use force. As soon as Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown on Aug. 9, the Graham v. Connor case became the foundational test for whether Wilson's response was appropriate or criminal." (read more)
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It started with a bottle of orange juice 30 years ago.
No it didn't.
To the contrary, it was a dark and stormy night.
None of anything matters, because Brown is black.
In the case of Graham, it seems to me (without knowing all the facts) that the police were in the wrong. Graham's crime was seeming drunk, but not actual drunk. A misunderstanding that left him injured. It is possible that we are not being told that he resisted and that he was belligerent. ? Who knows? Still, the courts sided with the police.
The Brown case, based on what facts we do know, is much more clear so far. A police officer was threatened in multiple ways and even assaulted, and he had to act to protect himself.
If you attempt to grab a cop's gun, if you hit a cop in the face and charge toward that police officer, you might get shot no matter your race. Because it's not about race. (oh yes it is!)
If the races were revered in this situation, we would NOT be having this conversation. We know this.
This is all about our new post-racial America. Oh wait - No it isn't. In Obama/Holder's America, we have devolved quickly into base tribal racialism. We are not moving forward, we are moving backward. By design. Victims are easier to arrange, separate, and manipulate.
And, ultimately, target.
The grievance industries for women, blacks and gays need a new crisis every now and then to justify the rackets of no-show government jobs, soft academic jobs, foundation handouts and traveling demagogues.
Wars have to be created to keep the weapons racketeers in money. Race crises have to be created to keep the race racketeers employed and the money flowing.
There's nothing here in this case. The racketeers will move on to the next one soon.
I saw the video of that second police shooting. I don't think those two police officers covered themselves with glory, but I would never convict them of a crime. When you have to confront a crazy man with a knife, perhaps it is better to shoot a moment too soon than a moment too late. At any event, the operational fact was that he was a crazy man with a knife rather than a black man. And if it's so easy to disarm crazy people with knives, why didn't one of the onlookers step up and show the world how it's done........I've been physically assaulted three times in my life. It causes a visceral rage that is overwhelming. Perhaps police training can cause you to overcome that rage, but I wouldn't want to be my life on it.
Never trust a man with a knife. See Kirk Douglas in "Gunfight at OK Corral".
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