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IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2014, 10:24 PM Nov 2014

"Do you regularly see Demons when working as a police officer?"

I mentioned in another post that this is one of the questions I would have expected a Prosecutor seeking an indictment against a Defendant to ask if that person said the victim "looked like a demon."

(For those not following closely, while explaining why he had to keep shooting at the unarmed Michael Brown, Darren Wilson explained in his testimony that Michael Brown quote "looked like a demon" which was part of why Darren Wilson was in fear for his life.)

I would also have liked to have asked how Darren Wilson knows what demons look like, and if he could describe what type of demon he thought Michael Brown was.

Then I would have asked if he was using any medications or performance enhancing drugs, prescription or otherwise during the time preceding the incident.

I have never personally seen a demon so I really want to know more about this.

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jillan

(39,451 posts)
1. I think Wilson sees a demon every time he looks in the mirror.
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 12:36 AM
Nov 2014

He is really fugly.... inside and out.

 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
11. Well, if he had described the "demon" we might know more.
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 10:19 AM
Nov 2014

I wonder if they only come in black?

 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
7. I think his answers would have been enlightening.
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 10:11 AM
Nov 2014

I have regularly voiced my opposition against guns in the hands of people who "hear voices instructing them to kill."

I am now going to add "or see Demons that need to be shot."

nilesobek

(1,423 posts)
4. Its classic really.
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 01:20 AM
Nov 2014

He even took a term which could be confused as subjective. Ridiculous for the grand jury to even had heard that testimony, the judge failed at his job.

 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
8. Wouldn't someone have had to object to it for the judge to "do something"?
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 10:13 AM
Nov 2014

And in a Grand Jury, the only person who could object would have been the Prosecutor, who apparently thinks seeing Demons is perfectly normal police behavior.

nilesobek

(1,423 posts)
20. I see what you mean. No one objected.
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 09:33 PM
Nov 2014

If Wilson sees imaginary demonic possession I guess that means he can read minds and can judge anyone. It could have been one of my sons and if it was, then I would shout it loudly.

azureblue

(2,150 posts)
5. Demon Schemon
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 01:38 AM
Nov 2014

This was nothing more than a cop and a prosecutor sitting down, figuring out what the cop can be charged with, and how to dodge the charge. The cop sat there and recited this made up story that was full of code words that were in the law he was to be charged with. He sat there and claimed he was in fear for his life - the prosecutor carefully framed the presentation to make Brown to be a raging bull on pot, and to get the cop off. Even though the law under which he was charged was ruled unconstitutional.

 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
9. Lots of problems.
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 10:15 AM
Nov 2014

I don't think they really expected anyone to find out.

Follow up questions for an investigation into shutting them down.....

"How often do you ignore the Supreme Court?"

 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
10. Apparently that type of charge might actually be an issue in St. Louis....
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 10:17 AM
Nov 2014

but I am Caucasian, so probably not?

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
12. Wilson needs a psych exam, and I'm not kidding. "Demon"; "I felt like a little boy"; "taunted" with
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 10:22 AM
Nov 2014

the "p" word; MB was like "Hulk Hogan" and "was almost bulking up."

And then, of course, his gun.

Sounds to me, playing arm-chair Freudian here, that Mister Wilson has some masculinity issues.



 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
14. Wilson would be the one bulked up if he were using steroids. But I agree; he is "off." No remorse?
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 10:27 AM
Nov 2014

Not one TOKEN expression of regret, even if couched in "Sorry I HAD to use my gun" terms?

 

IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
18. Okay, now that I want to wash my brain with bleach....
Sat Nov 29, 2014, 11:13 AM
Nov 2014

I see what you mean. So, he is just a guy who "sees demons" enough to know that Michael Brown "looked like a demon."

What causes that? I know some bipolar folk with these types of issues, but they are usually manic at that point....?

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