Michael Brown JUV record finally released, charged with 2nd degree murder years ago

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Except in extreme cases, it is NEVER a good idea to get into a physical confrontation with an armed police officer. That's what's obvious to me. You're still talking about the role police play in society, their legal powers and thus a civilian's rights to object to them. But that's not a debate to have while you're being arrested. It's a debate to have afterwards in court. As soon as you try to resist arrest, you open up a can of worms that can well end with you dead. And once you're dead, right and wrong no longer matter.

You are completely off - The Penal Code of whichever state you are in is the ONLY way to deal with police officers and IGNORANCE of the law is not a valid excuse.
It doesn't matter what your OPINION is of how to deal with cops - The only thing that does matter is the law and the police are doing their job according to the law.
If a cop approaches you and initiates a legal and lawful inquiry - you are in no position - to play semantics and voice your opinion of how things are going to go. It is the officer who is running that show.
It can be a very simple and respectful and courteous conversation without incident - Or
It can be a deadly situation - if you decide to use it as an opportunity to reveal your ignorance of the law.
When I get approached and a cop questions me - I just allow the cop to do his job and I have never ever had an interview turn into something bad because I allowed him to do his job - and then when he was done - life went on - and no one was hurt.
You and the public seem to think that this is somehow up for debate and all you are going to accomplish is that some weak politicians are going to play along to get your vote and then the criminals in the world are going to be the real winners. You will completely get the cops to tie their hands behind their backs (more than they already are) and the day your loved one gets ed - you will regret the day when you helped the criminal that hurt your family -
by making the criminal more powerful than the people you hope will be there to protect you. Then you will be crying that the cops did not want to do their jobs - even though you helped to disarm the cops causing the criminal to do as he pleased and hurting your family.

Let's say you are cruising down the road on a motorcycle, out of nowhere a semi comes barreling towards you at 70 mph. Do you say it's my right of way so it I'm not getting out of his way?

Excellent points and excellent example.

It is when you wrongly think you are above the law, and thus think you can impede the work of the officers of the law, that you get yourself into deep that sometimes you can't come back from.

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Where did that cartoon with about 8 pictures go? I thought it was on this thread.

Ya me too. I have it saved on my photobucket

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Is it possible Brown was grabbed by the cop and pulled in through the window before any gun was involved?

[RD2191]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/fer...html?hpt=hp_t1

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[cantthinkofanything]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/fer...html?hpt=hp_t1

well...hmm...

[Chinook]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/fer...html?hpt=hp_t1

As I said in my first response. It seems Brown was a piece of crap as a human being. But that has no bearing on whether the police officer was right in killing him. Right now, I believe three things about the whole incident:

1) I'm not sorry Brown's dead, as he was a POS.

2) The officer killed him unjustly and should be punished as harshly as possible.

3) Brown would have lived had he not resisted arrest.

[cantthinkofanything]

As I said in my first response. It seems Brown was a piece of crap as a human being. But that has no bearing on whether the police officer was right in killing him. Right now, I believe three things about the whole incident:

1) I'm not sorry Brown's dead, as he was a POS.

2) The officer killed him unjustly and should be punished as harshly as possible.

3) Brown would have lived had he not resisted arrest.

It's very possible that by doing the wrong thing, the cop actually saved many lives.