Recent content by financewonk

I agree with the bold. But I think you are taking what I said out of context. My posts were intended to poke holes in the narrative that's being advanced in the court of public opinion (e.g. this site) as justification for Wilson's actions, which is based off of a radio interview with Wilson's...

You completely chopped an important part of my statement. The report of the broken eye socket and evidence of a struggle for the gun came from the same source. So if the source was incorrect on the eye socket, then there's reason to doubt his or her claim on there being evidence of a stuggle for...

What? If Wilson wasn't the victim of a severe beating and there's no evidence of a struggle for the gun, then his case for shooting Brown seems much weaker than has been stated by people here, including me, who were basing it off of the Fox report.

Hence why I said the claim that there's evidence Brown grabbed for his gun was dubious. If I recall correctly, both claims came from the same source.

Yes, presumably it's all from the same source.

Burnett stated that he was treated and the x-rays came back negative.

Wilson must show that he feared for his life. So if Wilson wasn't the victim of a severe beating, then his case for killing Brown becomes weaker. Moreover, if the report that Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket was false, then the report's claim that there's evidence of stuggle for the gun is...

https://twitter.com/OutFrontCNN/status/502591749215510528

CNN is reporting that Wilson had a swollen face but didn't suffer any fractures.

Perhaps the angry 6'4 300 lb man disregarded Wilson's orders to surrender, made threatening statements, and continued to advance towards the officer. Considering Brown's behavior prior to being shot, the above seems more likely to be true than the version that Wilson, who has no history of...

IMO, it shows that he had a complete disregard for his physical well-being. I mean, most people know that if you strike a cop, then you're going to, at the very least, receive a severe beating.Therefore, the version of events which has him rushing the cop doesn't seem as unlikely to me as it...

Striking a police officer isn't borderline suicidal?

Seems to be one of the lessons that folks should take away from the Brown/ WIlson incident.

O'Mara is on CNN talking about why you should never create a violent confrontation with a cop. He states that you will never win a fight with them, since they always have a right to use a higher degree force than you use.

That doesn't necessarily mean that there wasn't one. Perhaps Brown threw less than a handful of shots and Wilson didn't throw any. Moreover, if I recall correctly from Baden's press conference, he said nothing about examining Brown's hands one way or another.