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Aug 18, 2014

The Inevitable Chart Emerges

Every time the cops get slammed for a bogus shooting, we hear the standard argument from one side that cops have to go to work every day thinking they might not make it home; and from the other side, we get the contention that a career cop faces far less potential for death on the job than lots of other occupations.

Being the Google Sapien that I am, I looked it up and made this handy-dandy little chart for your referential convenience (hat tip = Democratic Underground):


Ain't none of that the point, kids.

The point is that it appears an overeager (and likely under-trained) asshole, who prob'ly shouldn't have been allowed out with a badge and a gun in the first place, confronted a young man who was walking in the middle of the street, and when he resisted the officer's orders to move to the sidewalk, was shot something like six times - including twice in the head.

Michael Brown was no angel - and BTW, Officer Wilson didn't know Brown had stolen anything at the time of the shooting - but if being something less than perfectly charming is a capital offense, then it wouldn't be so hard to find a parking place downtown on a weekday.

Two in the hat, boys and girls.  That's the fuckin' point.

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