Quote: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.

 

If they would have come out earlier with any sort of information that was wrong they would have been blasted.  They had to do an investigation.  The only thing that would have curbed the reaction was saying they were arresting the cop for murder.

 

The autopsy takes time.  The video with the guy talking about what happened didnt come out until yesterday/today.

 

What did you want them to come out and say?  Do you really think the reporter that was arrested was just for the fun of it?  You don't think there was a reason?

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