Can the Police Really Do that?

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<p>Not exactly. </p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.samhsa.gov/data/nsduh/2012summnatfinddettables/nationalfindings/nsduhresults2012.htm#ch2.7”>http://www.samhsa.gov/data/nsduh/2012summnatfinddettables/nationalfindings/nsduhresults2012.htm#ch2.7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And for those who make fun of southerners:</p>

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<p>And hell needs to freeze over.</p>

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<p>Really? I read this from the same source:</p>

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<a href=“http://www.vox.com/2014/7/1/5850830/war-on-drugs-racist-minorities”>Everyone does drugs, but only minorities are punished for it - Vox;

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<p>Why does it matter what demographic group does more drugs? Toxicology will show what was in his system.</p>

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<p>What does it matter whether he was high as a kite? Now police are allowed to shoot people using drugs? I hop they start with drunk drivers.</p>

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<p>vox isn’t the same source as the SAMHSA and vox pretty clearly misinterpreted the data.</p>

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<p>No, not vox–the organization the data came from, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. That’s the same. I would have to look further into the box interpretation of the information but I have seen other statistics saying usage is roughly the same.</p>

<p>It will be interesting to see what changes after more states legalize marijuana. </p>

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<p>It is quite interesting some of the same folks who are condemning others for “convicting” the cops before trial are speculating on drug use when there hasn’t been any mention of drug use on Brown’s part by reports at this point.</p>

<p>And as someone who has studied the effects of various drugs in a pharmacology course in order to fulfill a science requirement at my public magnet and having attending a college where marijuana was one of the prime vices of choice among its mostly White and higher SES students, speculations on Brown’s marijuana use and attributing that to his supposed belligerency vis a vis the officer makes very little sense. </p>

<p>Someone high on marijuana tends to be very mellow, slow, and low energy. He’s much more likely to slowly and meanderingly make his way towards sources of food…not try going for a cop’s gun. </p>

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<p>The witness who was with him said they both ran away and witness ducked behind a car while Brown kept running in the street. He may have been shot from behind while running then turned around to put up his hands (don’t know, just a possibility). His body was face down pointed towards the SUV in the video.</p>

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<p>I can’t get my mind around the idea that Brown could have been running towards the officer trying to close a 35 foot gap (while possibly having been shot 3-4 times already). This makes no sense in any world but that of someone who is on “bath salts” which is very, very unlikely. Furthermore . . . what I see on the surveillance video is a shove which doesn’t indicate that he must have been “on something” to be so violent. </p>

<p>I am interested to know what the officer’s injuries are and if they are consistent with the Inspector Clouseau maneuver that he apparently pulled trying to exit his vehicle. Attempting to exit his door and having it rebound back at him could cause an injury to the left side of the face.</p>

<p>In the Martin case Zimmerman’s head injury looked pretty mild to have been caused by the theoretical act of Martin straddling him and bashing his head against the concrete. I’m curious to see if there will be a similar disconnect between the severity of the injury and the explanation put forth of how they occurred. Yet again . . . dead men tell no tales so people are free to speculate about Brown and make up anything and he isn’t in a position to offer a rebuttal. </p>

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<p>Exactly. Why run towards the man shooting at you? Better yet, how could he get shot and continue to run? They’re trying to make him seem like Superman or something.</p>

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<p>I also dispute the characterization of them “blocking traffic”. They were walking down a residential street not an arterial. The only traffic they were blocking was the clop who was responding to another call. I hate to think that when I walk my dog in the neighborhood later I will be seen to be blocking traffic.</p>

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<p>Which makes more sense: </p>

<p>(1) He was running away. Someone was shooting at him. He didn’t have a weapon himself. He turned around and started running toward the guy who was shooting at him.</p>

<p>(2) He was running away. Someone was shooting at him. He didn’t have a weapon himself. He turned around, put his hands up, and said, “Don’t shoot.”</p>

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<p>No-one should go into police work. These are life and death judgment calls made in seconds. The cop was 28 years old and has had to go into hiding with his family. His home has been broadcast on the local news channels. Now he’s a target and a city is being turned into rubble. All because he went to work one night and encountered a kid who was looking for trouble and found it. I have no idea what exactly occurred but it’s a little hard to believe that he just wanted to kill a black kid that night because he’s a mean racist. Something happened.</p>

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<p>Oh poor cop. He shoots an unarmed teenager seven or eight times, killing him, and then he, sniff, has to go into hiding. Boo hoo.</p>

<p>Seems to me the person looking for trouble was a cop who picked a fight with a kid.</p>

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<p>First, it happened during the day. Second, the city hasn’t turned into rubble. It’s bad but not LA Riots bad. Third, if Casey Anthony, OJ and Zimmerman are still on this Earth, he’s not in any REAL danger.</p>

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<p>actingmt, it wasn’t night–it was lunchtime. HE is the one who seems to have been looking for trouble. And if you don’t believe there is racism in that community, you haven’t been doing your research.</p>

<p><a href=“Deep Tensions Rise to Surface After Ferguson Shooting - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/us/ferguson-mo-complex-racial-history-runs-deep-most-tensions-have-to-do-police-force.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“All because he went to work one night and encountered a kid who was looking for trouble and found it. I have no idea what exactly occurred but …”</p>

<p>First sentence, please let me introduce you to second sentence. </p>

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<p>Why is the cop the one who was looking for trouble when the kid was coming from a robbery? That sounds like a trouble. The cop was coming from a sick call. I believe there is racism everywhere. I don’t believe it explains everything, though. I didn’t know what time of day this happened. Thanks.</p>

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<p>CF, Baden is a forensic pathologist who has been involved in many high profile cases. Very well-respected in the forensics and medical communities.</p>