re: #137 blueraven

I think what has been so awful about the Michael Brown case is this:

The officer may very well have been justified. *Eyewitness reports aside for the moment.
The way this thing has been handled just reeks.
No official report of incident.
The piecemeal info.
The conflicting accounts by Ferguson police.
The timing of the release of the “robbery” video.
The heavy initial military show of force.

All of this spurs distrust of everything. It is FUBAR.

*If the eyewitness accounts are indeed accurate, there is no justification whatsoever.

The thing is, if the evidence fit the cop’s version of events, then why spend so much time and energy concealing said evidence? Why avoid interviewing witnesses, one of the most basic post-incident procedures? Why keep the autopsy under wraps if it fits a scenario where Brown was the aggressor and the cop left with no choice but to use lethal force?

Nothing in the way the Ferguson PD has conducted itself gives me the impression that they are interested in the facts of this case coming out.