RE: 17 y/o Antwon Rose Was Murdered After Running Away from a Cop
Oh yeah, to be honest I wasn't even viewing this particular incident through a racial lens at all. Whenever I see police brutality or what I perceive to be an unlawful killing perpetrated by a police officer, I will call it how I see it. I'm pretty comfortable calling this one a murder or whatever the proper language is criminal homicide but for all I know that language may be being used because it's easier for a cop to wiggle out of a criminal homicide than it is a murder charge. The whole system is kind of convoluted and very specific when it comes to the world of legalese it's allot of parsing hairs. The illusion of a process can be carried out while an actual injustice is occurring in front of everyone's eyes. As far as the Michael Brown case goes, after the convenience store robbery and without any video evidence it was very hard for me to take sides on that one. So I didn't, if I was a member of the jury it the evidence would have made things easier to determine who was in the wrong.
So you think there was premeditation on the part of the officer to kill this young man? That's what they need for first degree murder, depending on the specifics it would be probably be rightly classified as manslaughter. Just like if you got in a scuffle on the street and one punched someone and they died, that's manslaughter.
You were exactly right to see what the jury has to say, but we have the media making these circuses before the jury says anything, causing riots and shit, and totally painting a false picture just to upset and divide people. White people are shot by cops improperly not infrequently but almost never make the national news because that would ruin their false narrative.
If there was premeditation it would have been in that brief moment that he decided to use deadly force to kill a scared kid who was running away from him. I think meditation can happen on the fly. Our brains are like supercomputers. We make complex calculations very quickly and then act upon them. So the point of premeditation, it might be arguable depending on how you look at it. Maybe that's why they are going with criminal homicide instead?
probably. To prove premeditation they would need some evidence or malice aforethought, like if he said he wanted to kill some black kid that night.