Ferguson Trial: Justice served, or not?

If I run towards an armed police officer in an act of clear violence ... I'll get shot.

(I'm white).

The likelihood of you being shot if you're unarmed is quite small, or at least, considerably smaller than if you were black (according to statistics).

To be fair, this is much bigger than a single black teenager. This is about the precedent that is being set against black people. The patterns are consistent: the police don't show as much care for black people as they do white or latin or asian people, and as a result are more likely to use force against them. In many of these cases, for whatever reason, officers do not face any sort of prosecution for their actions, and so, these actions are perpetuated. A high profile case like Michael Brown and the decision to indict the officer just serves as symbolism for a national issue.

If I run towards an armed police officer in an act of clear violence ... I'll get shot.

(I'm white).

If this information I have gathered from the federal, independent and county autopsies are accurate and reliable, it is safe to speculate Wilson was using self-defence against a violent and aggressive Brown. As mentioned in the WiKi article, the shots were fired from only a few feet away.

based on what? just some stereotype you have?
the real national issue is the huge racial bias that unjust or racial killings of blacks (which were actually justified or not at all racial) get huge media coverage while other killings and racial killings of whites get almost no media coverage and are largely ignored.



if you are white and you are walking in the other direction of a black police officer you can still get shot.



it is really strange how the cop was ordering that he takes his hands out.

the cop shot him because he took his hands out.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/25/critics-see-racial-double-standard-in-coverage-of-/?page=all

And why do you think those statistics are so high for blacks??

Because the areas which these shootings happen are BLACK.

No, what I said was based on looking at reliable statistics and coming to a logical conclusion. For instance, New York Police Department released a firearm discharge report, which details the amount and race of those shot by the police from 2000-2011 and they found that black people were five times more likely to shot and killed than white people. The Department of Justice, Buraeu of Justice Statistics released a report on arrest-related deaths that occured between 2003-2009, and found that the number of blacks killed as 1,529 whilst for whites it's 2,026; shocking considering blacks are actually a much smaller community. These are some of the statistics that I based my conclusion off of. This idea that blacks are always in uproar whilst the white community face similar injustice is quite frankly, stupid. You have no evidence (probably because there isn't any), but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and wait for any upcoming evidence you might want to share with me.

based on what? just some stereotype you have?
the real national issue is the huge racial bias that unjust or racial killings of blacks (which were actually justified or not at all racial) get huge media coverage while other killings and racial killings of whites get almost no media coverage and are largely ignored.



if you are white and you are walking in the other direction of a police officer you can still get shot.



it is really strange how the cop was ordering that he takes his hands out.

the cop shot him because he took his hands out.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/25/critics-see-racial-double-standard-in-coverage-of-/?page=all

the amount of black people shot by police compared to white people shot by police has nothing to do with whether a police officer who shot an unarmed black person is more easily let off the hook over a police officer who shot an unarmed white person.

the amount of black people shot by police compared to white people shot by police has nothing to do with whether a police officer who shot an unarmed black person is more easily let off the hook over a police officer who shot an unarmed white person.

please actually read and comprehend what the conversation is about to save yourself sometime instead of writing some irrelevant, meaningless nonsense and save other people time for having to explain obvious things to you.

you have not shown anything that police are more likely to use unreasonable force against a black person over a white person.

or are you suggesting that violent criminals should be ignored to keep racial statistics in balance?

e.g. ???

what does that have to do with an unarmed white person being shot by the police and it having almost no media coverage?

Where was the race riot after Lee Rigby was murdered? Show me a race riot that happens after a murder of a white person by a black person happens...

No, if you read my post over, I said that officers are more likely to use force against a black person than a white person, you then asked what I based that on and then I told you. Perhaps it's your comprehension skills that are lacking. What is considered unreasonable is a matter of debate, and reliable, federal statistics are unlikely to go into semantics and subjectivism. No, I just think that using force carelessly is unwarranted, but that's just my opinion.

To be fair, this is much bigger than a single black teenager. This is about the precedent that is being set against black people. The patterns are consistent: the police don't show as much care for black people as they do white or latin or asian people, and as a result are more likely to use force against them. In many of these cases, for whatever reason, officers do not face any sort of prosecution for their actions, and so, these actions are perpetuated. A high profile case like Michael Brown and the decision to indict the officer just serves as symbolism for a national issue.

Black man shoots white man, nothing

White man shoots black man, all shops within a 10 mile radius have a 100% off sale.

Cool.

based on what? just some stereotype you have?
the real national issue is the huge racial bias that unjust or racial killings of blacks (which were actually justified or not at all racial) get huge media coverage while other killings and racial killings of whites get almost no media coverage and are largely ignored.



if you are white and you are walking in the other direction of a police officer you can still get shot.



it is really strange how the cop was ordering that he takes his hands out.

the cop shot him because he took his hands out.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/25/critics-see-racial-double-standard-in-coverage-of-/?page=all

He was obviously over shadowed. Just a week after Brown was killed another black person was killed by a cop, in Missouri too. I'm sure you never heard of him either.

Gerl you're kidding right? Not even the same country or the same scenario. Lee Rigby was murdered by some crazy and they were arrested and brought to justice immediately. Wilson was not a crazy, he was a police officer, he was not arrested, he was no indicted, he wasn't even formally questioned until 2 weeks after the murder. How is that the same? Try again.