"We're creating an environment where black people don't feel safe," Kane said.

My white friend was mugged, robbed and had his car stolen at gun point by two black men in Oakland. A real fund experience. So white people do not always feel safe either.

Police cameras are a double edge sword. If they are open records then people can request them for the purpose of embarasing people (like the Cops TV show but without blurred faces). If they are not open records then we can't see police misconduct.

For instance:
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"We don't want to put people's private lives out there," Townsend said. "I can't in good conscience give out footage that shows people in their homes."

Brown is seen on video stealing cigars and pushing the convenience store clerk. Brown committed a "strong-arm robbery,” that is robbery in the second degree, felony.

Brown, who is 6’4” and weighs 290, tussled with Officer Wilson, who is also 6’4” but weighs 210 while Wilson was in the police car.

Striking a police officer constitutes Assault on a law enforcement office, which is a felony. Brown running away is obstruction of justice. Brown moving in on Officer Wilson was interpreted by Wilson as a threat to his life
Being a police officer is inherently a dangerous job, so they are likely to not take kindly to any perceived threat.

Police officers are allowed to shoot fewer than two circumstances. One circumstance is "to protect their life or the life of another innocent party" — what departments call the "defense-of-life" standard. The other circumstance is to prevent a suspected violent felon from escaping.

Wilson was justified under "defense-of-life" — that he feared for his life when Brown (in his telling) assaulted him in his car and tried to grab at his gun. In that case, the next question will be whether it was reasonable for him to be afraid of Brown.

Under the law, it doesn't matter if Brown ever intended to hurt Wilson. What matters is the officer's "objectively reasonable" belief that he was a threat. That puts a lot of weight on an officer's immediate instincts in judging who's dangerous.

Forensic records indicate that the final two shots Wilson fired, the ones that killed Brown, were fired into the top of Brown's bowed head. Several eyewitnesses have said that Brown was attempting to surrender when the final shots were fired, whereas Wilson's account is that Brown's head was down because he was trying to charge at Wilson.

"We're creating an environment where black people don't feel safe".
I do not feel safe around a guy who robbed a store and had a fight with a policemen. Why is he suddenly an icon for the struggling black people now?

"We're creating an environment where black people don't feel safe".
I do not feel safe around a guy who robbed a store and had a fight with a policemen. Why is he suddenly an icon for the struggling black people now?

"We're creating an environment where black people don't feel safe".
I do not feel safe around a guy who robbed a store and had a fight with a policemen. Why is he suddenly an icon for the struggling black people now?

Brown is seen on video stealing cigars and pushing the convenience store clerk. Brown committed a "strong-arm robbery,” that is robbery in the second degree, felony.

Brown, who is 6’4” and weighs 290, tussled with Officer Wilson, who is also 6’4” but weighs 210 while Wilson was in the police car.

Striking a police officer constitutes Assault on a law enforcement office, which is a felony. Brown running away is obstruction of justice. Brown moving in on Officer Wilson was interpreted by Wilson as a threat to his life
Being a police officer is inherently a dangerous job, so they are likely to not take kindly to any perceived threat.

Police officers are allowed to shoot fewer than two circumstances. One circumstance is "to protect their life or the life of another innocent party" — what departments call the "defense-of-life" standard. The other circumstance is to prevent a suspected violent felon from escaping.

Wilson was justified under "defense-of-life" — that he feared for his life when Brown (in his telling) assaulted him in his car and tried to grab at his gun. In that case, the next question will be whether it was reasonable for him to be afraid of Brown.

Under the law, it doesn't matter if Brown ever intended to hurt Wilson. What matters is the officer's "objectively reasonable" belief that he was a threat. That puts a lot of weight on an officer's immediate instincts in judging who's dangerous.

Forensic records indicate that the final two shots Wilson fired, the ones that killed Brown, were fired into the top of Brown's bowed head. Several eyewitnesses have said that Brown was attempting to surrender when the final shots were fired, whereas Wilson's account is that Brown's head was down because he was trying to charge at Wilson.