Breaking: PHOTOS RELEASED of Suspect Michael Brown ROBBING STORE Before Shooting

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Maybe you can take some time to explain to some of the morons on this board how cops are trained to shoot including where on the body and how many times. Also, if a cop shoots at someone, what is his/her goal? Also, what constitutes a justifiable homicide by law enforcement.

Clearly, the the libtards on this board are not being properly informed by their brain washers on MSNBC.





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Sure. All US law enforcement officers are trained to aim for center of mass, unbroken by cover. Breaking it down:
Suspect advancing: shoot for center of mass, which will be the torso.
Suspect is turned to his right or left side: the target just got smaller, but torso, again.

For the strange shootings I've seen/studied:

Suspect laying under pick up truck shooting at Troopers, and all that can be seen is the top of his head, part of a left shoulder, and part of a right shoulder: the head, as that's now become center of mass.

Suspect peeping out of a window while taking shots at police: Trooper who's trained with an M1A1; shot the suspect above the right eye as that was now center of mass.

One I'd rather forget: 911 call to rural, redneck/biker type bar for "man with gun in dispute with girlfriend, and other undisclosed white males. Crowd gathering in gravel lot."Arrive on scene; approach suspect who draws revolver at approaching Trooper at 7-8 feet distance. Shots fired center of mass, meaning torso.

 

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He says 2 in the chest 1 in the head.

That's called a "body armor drill," meaning just that. Suspect wearing body armor. I've never encountered it thank God, but believe that is an effective stopper. If hit in the torso (wearing a level III vest), with anything .38 and larger, those rounds spread quite up the energy across the torso often causing, broken rib(s), "wind knocked out," etc., which 'can' slow a suspect enough for a better sight picture for that third round.

 

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Weetod, I forgot to mention, we were trained to shoot until the threat(s) are stopped. That could mean as many rounds fired as necessary to stop the attack(s). And yes, in case anyone's curious, I wouldn't do that job in 2014 if my balls depended on it! I'd piss myself while closing the car door saying 10-8/41.:eek:

 

[Lucrum]

Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/2...en-before-shooting-michael-brown-says-source/

Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department's top brass told FoxNews.com.

“The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side,” said the insider. “He was beaten very severely.”

According to the well-placed source, Wilson was coming off another case in the neighborhood on Aug. 9 when he ordered Michael Brown and his friend Dorain Johnson to stop walking in the middle of the road because they were obstructing traffic. However, the confrontation quickly escalated into physical violence, the source said..

“They ignored him and the officer started to get out of the car to tell them to move," the source said. "They shoved him right back in, that’s when Michael Brown leans in and starts beating Officer Wilson in the head and the face.

The source claims that there is "solid proof" that there was a struggle between Brown and Wilson for the policeman’s firearm, resulting in the gun going off – although it still remains unclear at this stage who pulled the trigger. Brown started to walk away according to the account, prompting Wilson to draw his gun and order him to freeze. Brown, the source said, raised his hands in the air, and turned around saying, "What, you're going to shoot me?"

At that point, the source told FoxNews.com, the 6 foot, 4 inch, 292-pound Brown charged Wilson, prompting the officer to fire at least six shots at him, including the fatal bullet that penetrated the top of Brown's skull, according to an independent autopsy conducted at the request of Brown's family.

Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket in the fracas, and was left dazed by the initial confrontation, the source said. He is now "traumatized, scared for his life and his family, injured and terrified" that a grand jury, which began hearing evidence on Wednesday, will "make some kind of example out of him," the source said.

The source also said the dashboard and body cameras, which might have recorded crucial evidence, had been ordered by Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, but had only recently arrived and had not yet been deployed.

St. Louis County police, who have taken over the investigation, did not return requests for comment about possible injuries suffered by Wilson.

Edward Magee, spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCullough, said the office will not disclose the nature of the evidence it will reveal to a grand jury.

"We'll present every piece of evidence we have, witness statements, et cetera, to the grand jury, and we do not release any evidence or talk about evidence on the case."

Nabil Khattar, CEO of 7Star Industries – which specializes in firearms training for law enforcement and special operations personnel – confirmed that police are typically instructed to use deadly force if in imminent danger of being killed or suffering great bodily injury.

“You may engage a threat with enough force that is reasonably necessary to defend against that danger,” he said.

Wilson is a six-year veteran of the Ferguson police force department, and has no prior disciplinary infringements.

Massive protests have since taken over the St. Louis community, prompting Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon last Thursday to place Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson at the helm of security operations in an effort to calm ongoing tensions. The federal government is also investigating the death, and Attorney General Eric Holder has taken the lead – calling “the selective release of sensitive information” in the case “troubling.”

On Friday, Ferguson police released surveillance video showing Brown stealing cigars from a convenience store just before his death. Jackson came under intense criticism for disclosing the tape and a related police report as he also insisted that the alleged robbery and the encounter with Wilson were unrelated matters. Brown’s family, through their attorney, suggested the tape’s release was a strategic form of “character assassination.”

However, FoxNews.com’s source insisted that there was absolutely no spin agenda behind the tape’s release and that there were a number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) media requests filed by media outlets seeking it. Tom Jackson is said to have waited on publicly releasing it, and did not want it shown until Brown’s grieving mother first had the chance to see it.

“He defied the FOIAs as long as he could,” noted the insider. “A powerful, ugly spin has completely ruined public discourse on this whole situation.”

And they want to indict the cop for what - self defense?

 

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And they want to indict the cop for what - self defense?

You nailed it!!!! I guess the patrolman was supposed to take an ass whipping like a man, and let the animal run wild with a powerful firearm, and extra magazines to boot once ol' cracker pig's down? Oh, I forgot, the aggressor happened to be black. Yep, that's one cop who should have just stood there and took whatever "deserved."

 

[Max E.]

And they want to indict the cop for what - self defense?

The sad thing is, at the very least this cop is going to have to vigorously defend his freedom in court, and he will never live a normal life again. His life is over all because some parasites like Al Sharpton chose to latch onto him. There is no choice at this point, if this guy goes free without going to court, every urban centre in america will burn.

Its fucking pathetic, you have built an entire thread dedicated to police brutality, yet somehow liberals always manage to choose the losing causes. Its almost as if they are trying to pick the worst cases possible. We could probably find 2 dozen examples of police brutality that would be open and shut in court on your thread, and for some reason they choose to latch onto pieces of shit like this Michael Brown guy.