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August 18, 2014, 03:22 AM | #76 |
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I haven't paid too much attention to this b/c until more info come out it is just a lot of heated speculation.
On gang signs... I lived in a small midwest city with limited gang activity for a bit. At one point I was shown some training material related to the local enforcement of anti-gang regulations including photographs of gang signs. It was ridiculous. It was if they crammed every a picture of every sign from every gang in the US onto a few grainy pages. Almost any gesture imaginable was reasonably close to one of the represented gang signs. Any police department, no matter the size is either stupid or ashamed of their incompetence if they aren't using dash cams at a minimum. One or two avoided lawsuits will pay for body cams for a large department. Of course, these officers were pulling in mad overtime and trying out all their surplus toys, so they probably prefer it that way. |
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Coming out that the Governor ordered National Guard resources to the area to assist. Links below.
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August 18, 2014, 06:34 AM | #78 |
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Autopsy report shows Brown was shot six times in the front of his body:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/us...=tw-share&_r=1 Eyewitness account: http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/1686...uson-shooting/ |
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The decriptions of the autopsy diagram don't make sense to me.
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August 18, 2014, 08:34 AM | #80 |
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I really hope the news coverage about police militarization starts to make people think. I believe it it will shift the focus of gun control at least somewhat and maybe get people to think that the second amendment is still relevant.
Also if the police were to start a violent war with people... Their body armor is only made to stop pistol and assault rifle rounds, I doubt it could stop a full size hunting cartridge. There's a reason people didn't wear BA before Vietnam.
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What's the tie-in to body armor and Vietnam? We didn't have body armor in Vietnam, we had flak jackets. That's ALL they were -- they were intended to offer some protection against flying shrapnel. They were in no sense whatsoever "body armor." |
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August 18, 2014, 09:03 AM | #82 |
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I like what Doug Wylie from PoliceOne says about this.
Neither the initial story from Brown's friends nor the initial story from the Ferguson PD make any sense, so why don't we just wait peacefully for the investigations to finish. |
August 18, 2014, 09:09 AM | #83 |
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Flak jackets were used in the later part of the Korean War, and first used in WWII for bomber crews in limited issue.
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Personally, I think the "we were outgunned" excuses went out the window some years ago when fully automatic weapons started being surplussed out of Federal/military coffers and started routinely showing up in increasingly large quantities in even small-town police departments.
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Flak jackets are, by definition, body armor.
Actual flak jackets were developed for aviators, most notably bomber crews, and used steel plating to stop shell fragments. Ballistic vests of the type used in Vietnam largely did away with the steel, making them flak jackets in name only. Some versions used, I think, ceramic plates, early versions of today's cermat, others used fiberglass plates.
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TV ME's solve things in an hour. The real world takes somewhat longer, days, sometimes weeks or more.
So, now we have a "witness" saying shot in the back when his hands were up...." and a certified medical examiner saying "shot in the front", but being somewhat vague on how many bullets and which ones did what, when. The autopsy can give us the position of the body at the moment of impact, and bullet paths, but it cannot give us definitive reasons for the position. It takes other evidence to establish that clearly, as there is virtually no position a human body can take that does not have at least two different explanations possible as to the reason for it. Its a mess, and there are going to be people who will stick to the shot in the back while surrendering story no matter WHAT the autopsy shows. After all, its the same govt doing the autopsy, and it could be a cover up, right? The same folk who insist on calling the 6'4" 290lb subject a "boy" are unlikely to believe the autopsy report is unbiased, UNLESS it favors their version of events, in which case, it will become gospel to them. I can see being upset and angry, even protesting, but using the event as justification for rioting before the system can even clearly ascertain the true facts of the event is NOT a reasoned act, unless the reason is to steal.
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As I see it, when people are throwing Molotov cocktails ..... that's not a protest ..... that's a riot. Arson and pillage are not legitimate forms of protest. Policing is over, and the National Guard, with whatever level of force necessary to restore order, is called for.
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August 18, 2014, 10:38 AM | #89 |
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There's about three different groups involved in this.
1) The Looters. They're in it to break things and steal stuff and they have a reasonable expectation of getting away with it. The initial spate of looting a week ago was the worst of it (the Walmart ended up suffering a $1 million loss between lost inventory and damage), but there's been some here and there since. 2) The Rioters. There's a bit of overlap between this group and the looters, but the focus of this group is less on stealing/breaking than it is on confronting the police for past wrongs, both perceived and real. They're not so interested in raiding convenience stores, very interested in insulting cops and throwing things at them. 3) The Protestors. This group really is peaceful. This is by far the largest group. They want to make sure this doesn't get swept under the rug. Problem is, the other two groups use them for cover. Groups 1 and 2 are by and large not made up of Ferguson residents (those residents I've talked to- and I have talked to several- will tell you this). Some have even traveled from out of state (one person in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article a day or two ago was revealed to have come from Nashville, TN just so he could curse at the officers). Problem is, how do you separate groups 1 and 2 from #3? The protestors have a legitimate first amendment right to protest. The others know they can move in and out of this group to cause mayhem, much to the consternation of the police and the protestors. Is it legal to restrict this area to residents only? How can the police allow protesting while keeping a lid on everything else? I'm not sure the National Guard will find it easier to do this than the Missouri Highway Patrol. Ferguson PD, and St. Louis County PD have. There is a rising number of shop owners using firearms to deter the looters and other troublemakers from their own establishments... that may be part of the answer. But not every owner can or will do that. Nor will the police or National Guard necessarily keep allowing it. |
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It remains to be seen what, exactly, the national guard will be doing that the police haven't done. It seems to me that calling in the guard is a bit of a vindication of some of what the Ferguson and STL County PDs have been doing... while their initial heavy handedness may have been unnecessary, there is a bit more needed down there than teddy bears and singalongs. That works fine with the protestors. Not so much with the looters and rioters. |
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August 18, 2014, 12:36 PM | #93 |
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AFAIK, the autopsy results just released were from the private autopsy funded by the family's attorney. The official autopsy hasn't been released, to my knowledge. You can expect the private findings to be deliberately vague to present a case for ambiguity later in the press, and court.
There will also be a Federal autopsy. I expect the findings there to be as acceptable to the segment of the public using this event for their own purposes as the autopsies of the Roswell Alien in 1947 or JFK in 1963. |
August 18, 2014, 12:40 PM | #94 |
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You do know the JFK autopsy was thoroughly bungled according to pretty much every forensic examiner on record as it was performed by naval doctors who were not trained in forensics. If the official autopsy on this is as bad I expect there will be a good bit of outrage.
Roswell just shows the air force isn't any better trained than the navy. We have all seen situations like this so many times where wild stories are flying from both sides. The family always says the "victim" was a gentle giant. The officers always say the "suspect" was on PCP. A photo on facebook proves little. I am sure there are many white suburban kids who pick their nose in between pulls in WOW dungeons with such pictures on facebook. None of this is reliable. Everyone always says the trouble makers are from another group or city. Arrest records following riots aren't all that convincing. Last edited by johnwilliamson062; August 18, 2014 at 12:56 PM. |
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The president was just on the radio ..... mentioned protecting "Constitutional Rights" including the "Right to Free Speech" and "Freedom of Assembly" ..... yet in the same breath, spoke against "carrying guns".
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The private autopsy was done by NYC's former chief medical examiner so he has some credibility. My understanding, though, is that he has not reviewed the x-rays taken at the official autopsy. |
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No one likes their own kind being shot or killed by government agents that aren't their own kind. If you have strong support for what the police in Ferguson did after the shooting do you also support what happened in Waco, Ruby Ridge, or what could have happened with Clive Bundy in Nevada?
There is no excuse for looting and rioting, and I sympathize with those who have to balance a response with the freedom to assemble and protest. But it seems to me that this is still a scenario that requires us to at least question authority. Tactics and equipment that we developed for Iraq and Afghanistan are at play now in the United States. That includes the use of drones, they just aren't armed- yet. |
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1-Drones for observation, because officers can't be everywhere, are expensive, and want to go home safe 2-Automated drones for surveillance, because officers can't be everywhere, are expensive, and want to go home safe 3-Strategic non-lethal drones for ingress and building clearning, because officers can't do every job, are expensive, and want to go home safe 4-Tactical sniping platforms for hostage/siege situations, because officers aren't bulletproof, are expensive, and want to go home safe 5-Assisted sniping platforms, because police are not perfect shots, perfect shots are expensive to train, and officers want to go home safe 6-Automated enforcement drones, because officers are expensive to train, can't be expected to know the multitude of laws on the books, are not invulnerable, and want to go home safe 7-Officers finally get to go home safe, for good. Part of me wonders how the whole begging for budget increases dynamic is going to change when police officers are barely involved in day-to-day enforcement. Will the choice finally be based on whether citizens desire stronger and stronger enforcement (as opposed to a guilt trip), officials' lies about a fictitious crime wave (see: now), or an institutionally-fostered psychological tendency toward dependence and helplessness that leaves the populace perpetually terrified of nameless evils requiring ever more resources to combat? Or will we have simply voted to give funding/allocating authority to computers by then? I for one, welcome our new Killbot overlords; they can't possibly do a worse job than any other system that's been tried TCB
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McVeigh may have been motivated, but he sure wasn't part of an individual effort. Or one that took place in a simple attempt to get a free tv or in a quick and emotional response. He worked and planned his response, with some help. Isn't an excessive reaction bound to create more of the same?
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