OPINION PIECE: Michael Brown was chased, hunted, and executed.

[JaneyVee]

6 bullets entered Michael Brown's body.

The head shot was the final shot as the blood left his body from the previous 5 shots, struck through the top of his skull as he slumped to the ground. He was 18 years old, terrified, and panicking.

I get physically ill seeing how the media and police think anybody is stupid enough to believe that Michael Brown was "bum rushing" a police officer actively shooting at him from a distance. First you would have to convince me that the kid had a death wish. Then you have to convince me that the kid had a death wish while also convincing me that running AWAY from active gunfire constitutes a 'death wish'.

Newsflash: NO ONE runs towards the gun fire. Humans aren't even built like that. If rushing towards dangerous predators with no other means of offense/defense was part of human nature humans may be extinct by now.

He turned around to surrender. He turned around to run for cover. He turned around after thinking oh shit I'm in the wide open while being shot at, let me run towards the sidewalk/parked cars. Here's what no terrified, panicked teenager does: run toward the dangerous predator with no other means of offense/defense.

Anything that may or may not have happened during an alleged confrontation at the vehicle does not justify the killing of an unarmed teenager, anyone who says otherwise is a sadistic fuck.

Here is something that IS sometimes part of human nature if not handled properly: misplaced anger and rage. Combine that with a gun and results could possibly be deadly.

Michael Brown was chased, hunted, and executed.

Oh, and releasing that market surveillance footage on the same day as they released officers name was some bullshit to the highest degree.

(and of course 'opinion piece' was a bit of snarkasm for those complaining about opinion pieces)

[valerief]

1. Militarized police and racism are used to provide slave labor to corporations

who purchase that labor from for-profit prisons.

[Cha]

2. Thank you, Janey.. it's crazy for the gopropagandmedia machine and the FPD to talk like

Michael Brown had a death wish. Imagine what his friend, Dorian Johnson, was thinking! Ask him if Michael had a death wish.

And, hearing that he could have survived most of the shots except for the final head shot or shots is mind numbingly heartbreaking.

"Four of the shots, or maybe five, were not definitively fatal. But, he said at a press conference, the sixth, the bullet through the top of Brown’s head, was one that no one could have survived."

Another atrocious PR stunt from the Police.. this time from the St Louis County Police Chief, Jon Belmar..

"The morning after he was killed, the St. Louis County police chief said that Brown had been shot “more than just a couple of times, but not much more.”

Informed much, St Louis Co PC, Jon Belmar.. propaganda much?

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/michael-browns-body

[pipoman]

3. Oh geez....'it stands to reason' logic...

And more commentary from someone hiding behind their keyboard who hasn't a clue what they are talking about.

[BuelahWitch]

4. K&R

You are right, the charge that he was bum rushing is total BS. Anyone pushing the meme that he was running toward gunfire to headbutt Williams has been watching too many Mel Gibson movies.

[The Magistrate]

8. You A Special Little Snowflake, Fella, Ain'tcha....

False as your dichotomies.....

[sheshe2]

9. "Can we blame the police officer before the facts are in?"

Well should we blame the victim before the facts are in? Should we?

Wow! OMG!

You just put full blame on the victim. Michael Brown.

Look, it's one or the other

• either the cop was a sadistic psychopath on the loose who chased, hunted and executed Michael Brown just for kicks, and he deserves to be interned in a mental hospital for the criminally insane.

• or Michael Brown committed some serious violations of the Law that were threatening the safety of a police officer. In that case, the debate is down to determining what kind of force should had been used and if it was feasible in the circumstances.

Enjoy your stay.

[tea and oranges]

11. You see, the right wing

always wants to deny anyone victimhood other than their poor wittle selfs.

[aggiesal]

18. Are you serious?

Can we blame the police officer before the facts are in?

Officer Wilson certainly didn't wait before the facts were in.
He acted as judge, jury and executioner.

[GeorgeGist]

19. And then he ran away.

[indivisibleman]

6. Agreed.

I don't need any more facts to see that an injustice was done here. Sure there may have been other circumstances that contributed to this tragedy but it is plain for everybody to see that this officer made some gross errors in judgement and it resulted in the death of a teenager. There are numerous eyewitnesses that tell us there was no bum rushing here. Deep down everyone knows it.
Darren Wilson should come clean. His opportunity to do so is quickly slipping away. For his own sake he should own up to what he did. He lost it. Plain and simple. No matter what happens here on earth heaven holds the true record.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Media does typically rush in to proclaim the corpse Guilty As Charged.

[bluestateboomer]

12. There is some "Trolliness" here N/T

[tea and oranges]

13. Aren't you just the cutest wittle troll!

[Sedona]

14. ENJOY YOUR STAY

[me b zola]

15. Fuck off, racist!

Yes, of course a black teen in the road must be a "thug", right?

You are in the wrong place to spread your racist shit. Take a right turn and keep going.

[Colorado Liberal]

16. Which is why you should NEVER be a policeman...

No one knows what happened, but you, with your profound insight, know what Michael Brown was thinking.

And as an aside, if you're going to use a word multiple times in a post, can you at least bother to spell it correctly? Alleged. Just one 'd'.

Give me a fucking break. Can we at least get trolls with a double-digit IQ?

[Rhiannon12866]

17. He's gone!

[redqueen]

20. Thank you JaneyVee

Well said.