Why You Shouldn't Make Up Your Mind About A Shooting From Watching The Video

[TBoneTX 45,571]

Regards the G. Floyd incident.  Interesting, with facts that I hadn't heard about the famous earlier photograph mentioned.

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Why You Shouldn't Make Up Your Mind About A Shooting From Watching The Video

by Maureen Mullarkey - July 8, 2020

 

"The god is in the image," wrote David Freedberg in The Power of Images.  But it is a devious god, one that permits our eyes, susceptible to misinterpretation, to tyrannize our capacity to respond coherently to what is in front of us.  An image, whether a still photo or an abbreviated video clip divorced from the moments that preceded it, is open to unreliable impressions.  [...]

 

Continues here: https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/08/why-you-shouldnt-make-up-your-mind-about-a-shooting-from-watching-the-video/  

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,571]

Quoted paragraph is boring.  Content of article is interesting.  Comments?

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

That is why Chauvin is entitled to due process. 

 

Although, if police had anything that would demonstrate Chauvin's innocence, or even less guilt, I don't see why they'd sit on it, especially as the city and nation went through what it did. 

 

I'm interested in this case and when it finally goes to a trial.

[TBoneTX 45,571]

5 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

I don't see why they'd sit on it

Don't want their personal houses or their precincts burned down by the insanely enraged.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,376]

No matter what evidence is presented those cops will be the proverbial virgin thrown in the volcanology 

[TBoneTX 45,571]

2 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

volcanology

Otherwise known as a volcano,  man.

But true point.

[OriZ 3,157]

I don't think anyone should be a scapegoat. if it's a jury I'm sitting on, I go by the evidence, not the threats that more looting or burning will happen.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

1 hour ago, OriZ said:

I don't think anyone should be a scapegoat. if it's a jury I'm sitting on, I go by the evidence, not the threats that more looting or burning will happen.

Ditto, and thank you.

[Dashinka 24,628]

4 hours ago, OriZ said:

I don't think anyone should be a scapegoat. if it's a jury I'm sitting on, I go by the evidence, not the threats that more looting or burning will happen.

This is one of the main reasons cops being prosecuted will request a bench trial, as many that sit on juries in these types of cases will bend to mob pressure.  Certainly a judge could do the same thing, but it seems less likely.

[Dashinka 24,628]

11 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Quoted paragraph is boring.  Content of article is interesting.  Comments?

Good article, I remember seeing the 1968 photo back in the 70’s and all the sympathy the butcher being executed received.

 

Here in Detroit, the DPD does its best to get out in front of issues.  We had a shooting yesterday of an armed person who decided shooting at cops was a smart move.  The DPD has already released dash cam and body cam videos of the event clearly showing the bad guy pulling a weapon out and firing.  Of course the mob had their own narrative.

 

Detroit police chief: Video shows killing of man by officers was justified shooting
 

Craig said he wanted to get the video out "as quickly as I could."

 "It's important to get the facts right,"  said Craig, who took issue with demonstrators who accused the police of killing a man without getting all the facts.

"It's always tragic when a police officer has to use force," Craig said. But, he stressed: "This knee-jerk reaction to not knowing facts is a problem ... It's to incite others."

Craig said social media posters had dramatically misled the public, causing him to release the videos quickly to quell rumors. 

Within hours of the shooting,  Craig said, numerous protesters converged on the scene of Littleton’s shooting, “saying he was unarmed, saying he was executed, saying he was shot 16 times. That was all so untrue ... I know we’re in a very difficult time, here and across the country ....
 

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/07/10/fatal-police-shooting-photo-shows-man-armed/5417939002/

Edited July 11, 2020 by Dashinka

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

8 hours ago, OriZ said:

I don't think anyone should be a scapegoat. if it's a jury I'm sitting on, I go by the evidence, not the threats that more looting or burning will happen.

And just as importantly, what the law says.

 

4 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Good article, I remember seeing the 1968 photo back in the 70’s and all the sympathy the butcher being executed received.

 

Here in Detroit, the DPD does its best to get out in front of issues.  We had a shooting yesterday of an armed person who decided shooting at cops was a smart move.  The DPD has already released dash cam and body cam videos of the event clearly showing the bad guy pulling a weapon out and firing.  Of course the mob had their own narrative.

 

Detroit police chief: Video shows killing of man by officers was justified shooting
 

Craig said he wanted to get the video out "as quickly as I could."

 "It's important to get the facts right,"  said Craig, who took issue with demonstrators who accused the police of killing a man without getting all the facts.

"It's always tragic when a police officer has to use force," Craig said. But, he stressed: "This knee-jerk reaction to not knowing facts is a problem ... It's to incite others."

Craig said social media posters had dramatically misled the public, causing him to release the videos quickly to quell rumors. 

Within hours of the shooting,  Craig said, numerous protesters converged on the scene of Littleton’s shooting, “saying he was unarmed, saying he was executed, saying he was shot 16 times. That was all so untrue ... I know we’re in a very difficult time, here and across the country ....
 

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/07/10/fatal-police-shooting-photo-shows-man-armed/5417939002/

 

Good for them. What we know is they won't sit on something they have when you have animals wanting to tear a city apart.

Edited July 11, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

[TBoneTX 45,571]

22 hours ago, OriZ said:

if it's a jury I'm sitting on, I go by the evidence, not the threats that more looting or burning will happen.

Then your house and your vehicles will be looted and set aflame.

20 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Ditto

Ditto.

17 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Certainly a judge could do the same thing, but it seems less likely.

Then his/her house and vehicles will be looted and set aflame.