re: #116 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Brown’s (clearly reprehensible) behavior in the store is just as irrelevant to what the witnesses described as having happened after the first shots. Again, either Wilson shot a person who’s given himself up, or he didn’t. That’s the only relevant issue.

Not quite that simple. If there had been no report at all, there would be nearly no justification for the stop at all. Jaywalking? Infraction. Investigating a reported crime like theft underscores a better justification for the stop. Past that as I said above it depends on the fight (if any) from Brown vs Wilson.

Nobody is allowed to resist arrest of get physical with a policeman in the course of his work. That escalates the whole thing.

None of this should be taken as defending Wilson, just a cold look at changing facts and revelations.