re: #126 Indy GOP Refugee

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.

None of this influences whatever it was that happened between the first and the second series of shots. Not whether there was a justification for the stop, not who initiated the fight, not whether Brown resisted arrest.

The only thing that matters is whether Brown gave up and whether Wilson understood that Brown gave up.