Sam Dubose

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I saw the video and do not believe that from it you can conclude that Tensing was caught up in the steering wheel or in the car by anything but his own voluntary action. The movement of the car and the officer took place after the shot was fired.

I am not sure what the intent of this question, but there's nothing clear about it. If the jury finds him not guilty, it will likely be because they had been convinced of some justification by his lawyer. Such a verdict might also be the result of other dynamics. I don't believe this is going to happen, but time will tell.

You earlier made the statement that he is not justified because they indicted him.

I was pointing out the silliness of that logic.

Many innocent people are indicted and convicted of crimes they did not do.

s if they appear to have an excuse. IN this case, no justifying factor was evident to the prosecutor.

If you are seriously trying to suggest that prosecutorial approaches to the police are identical to their approach to members of the general public I can only say that you are profoundly mistaken.

He now says the officer was right to draw his gun.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion ... /31064135/

. It was proper for Officer Tensing to make the stop. He was well within his authority to ask Mr. DuBose to exit his vehicle when he failed to produce identification. What happened after that crossed the line between good police work and committing a crime.

I suppose his comment about brandishing his weapon in the face of an unarmed man is in some other release, is it?

If the jury finds him not guilty, it will likely be because they had been convinced of some justification by his lawyer.

Another possibility is that the jury might not think the prosecutor proved his guilt.

I used to know someone who walked on murder for that very reason. After delivering their verdict and leaving the courthouse, one or two responded to questions by the press. They stated very clearly that they thought the guy was probably guilty, but the prosecutor had not proven that he was guilty.

what will happen if he manages to walk?

I've had similar experiences. I drove an old farm pickup for many years. It didn't look like much, it wasn't all that comfortable, the heaters barely worked, but I liked it.

I used to do some consulting work at two different offices in Texas City, Texas. I'd usually show up in the late afternoon and work until very late at night, usually well after midnight.

One of the offices was very close to a bar that was popular with the younger crowd. Not once was I ever hassled by the police leaving that office late at night.

The other was downtown where there was very little traffic at night. At least once a week I would be pulled over when I was leaving and hassled. Most nights when I wasn't pulled over, I was followed out of town by the police.

While doing some work at the downtown office, I once had to have some transmission work done on my pickup and so for a couple of weeks I drove a rental car. Not once was I hassled while driving the rental car in spite of working at the same place and the same hours. It was as if I was invisible.

In my old farm pickup, I looked out of place. In the late model rental car, I didn't look out of place.

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I've read that years ago, wealthy black businessmen with nice cars often resorted to wearing chauffeur's uniforms when driving. The police would assume they were the chauffeur for some wealthy white man and leave them alone, but if they weren't in a chauffeur's uniform, they would be hassled because they looked out of place in the typical police officer's view of the world.

a dominant subset of American police forces are or see themselves as an occupying force at war with the colored and the poor, treating them all as insurgents. simple as that.

These are the groups who statistically commit most of the crimes. So, why wouldn't you have your police focus on them? Isn't that what a thinking person would do ?

Look at Mr. Dubose, he was reportedly arrested seventy-five times. Seventy-five times.

Don't we want to keep people like Mr. Dubose out of our neighborhoods?

Groups don't do anything, individuals do. The kind of groupthink that says individuals must be discriminated against because of statistics about their group may be acceptable in some other society but it is against the law in the United States.

False. He had been charged with 75 offenses, including multiple counts of driving with a suspended license. These charges are not synonymous with arrests or convictions. He had NO history of violent crime.

Only a fool disregards statistics, but fools can be lucky though.