Originally Posted by CDSmith

The one irrefutable fact here is that had this large kid not been out strutting around the nieghborhood like king kong and acting like he can take what he wants and smack around or threaten whomever he wants (clearly caught on store camera and backed up by eyewitness accounts) he would still be alive today. All the evidence I've seen suggests he very much did have that "fuck you - I'm huge, I'll fuck you up if you get in my way" attitude, which only lends credence to the cops' accounting of events.

Robbie, I'm certainly not a fan of cops in a lot of cases by any stretch, but in this case your bias is a bit too overwhelming here. A lot of cops need work, several are downright shitty cops, but not all are as corrupt and incompetant as your posts suggest.

I'd say I know or have known personally over 25 cops in my lifetime, most of them as friends. I can't think of ONE who wouldn't pull up and tell a couple of punks to get off the goddamn street and stop blocking traffic. Whatever occurs after that is really up to the thug, not the cop. The cop is going to do what he's going to do. The only variable is the thug's actions.

Had he chosen a different set of actions he'd still be alive. And that's a fact.