Quote:Bad public relations?  There's a 10 minute video out now that before an investigation even started the people were yelling at the cops saying they shot a kid with his back to the cop and his hands up.  I understand where they are coming from.  If I walked out of my house and someone told me they saw it and the kid had his hands up with his back to him and then got shot, I'd be livid too.

 

I hope the kid who gave the statement that he shot him in the back is charged with a crime.  If nothing else, he is the one who has incited this whole mess.

 

I feel bad for the kids family and the people who have had their stores looted because of this.

 

The evidence I've seen today suggests this is another case of a cop always being in the wrong and a rush to judgement by people saying cops are bad people.  I even saw a post on facebook of a screenshot....the kid said people need to follow cops home and then kidnap their family members and that was the only way they would get their attention.  Really?!

 

Yea bad response by the department. They waited almost two days before anything about the incident came out, from the first couple of moments after the shooting you could tell this was going to be bad. They needed to be ahead of this not behind it.

 

All the information coming out now, almost a week after the fact needed to be used to keep us from getting to this point. And yes the "eye witness" that appears to have been lying needs to be charged. (I'm not sure if purgery is the right charge but lying to the cops I'm pretty sure is a criminal act on some level.)

 

Then you had the governor pretty much tell people that they needed to let the public blow some steam, that's only going to encourage protestors to blow off steam. They waited almost 3 days before getting the state police involved and than another 4 days before getting the national guard involved. It's out of hand now, you've got the New Black Panthers coming in so they'll look to escalate the problem.

 

The News reporters that tried to report on the situation where arrested, gassed, and shot at with rubber bullets that's not going to present the police in a good light.

 

So yea pretty much anyway possible to fowl up after the shooting we've seen.

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