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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
Tue May 12, 2015, 03:57 PM May 2015

Watching the Tony Robinson Jr shooting press conference.

Shooting by police of a 19 yr old unarmed black man.

The DA type giving the press conference seems to be trotting out a lot of personal extraneous crap that has nothing to do with whether or not a police officer broke the law in shooting an unarmed man. He's still dragging things out but I'm guessing he's going to let the cop off. And... I think he just did. No charges against the officer if I understand him correctly. Black lives don't matter enough in Wisconsin.


Edited to add: Ok, so the cop shot Robinson because he hit his head, was afraid that Robinson would 'take his gun and shoot him' if he went unconscious. So Robinson was not shot for what Robinson had done or for having a weapon, but because the police was afraid that he couldn't maintain control over his own weapon, even though, if I understand it right, Robinson had not actually made any attempt to take the gun.

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Watching the Tony Robinson Jr shooting press conference. (Original Post) Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 OP
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I'll read it in a sec, press conference still going on. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. I'll read it in a sec, press conference still going on.
Tue May 12, 2015, 04:08 PM
May 2015

The guy who got shot was no angel, he was on multiple drugs, had committed multiple violent as well as simply stupid acts in the minutes before. But none of the crimes mentioned carries a death penalty. Cop fired 7 shots in 3 seconds, all shots hit the deceased.

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