In America, if a kid with a gun tries to take your money, you can "stand your ground." But if he has a badge to go with that gun, you're supposed to say yes sir and just take it bending over, no vaseline.

There's no law against carrying cash. What's the magic number where your carrying of cash is "suspicious"? I frequent casinos in my travels and usually carry about $5K in cash for such purposes. That's less than months salary. Is that "suspicious"?

Doesn't matter if you own one of the teams.

Ditto for the NBA and forcing an owner to sell a team over disgusting remarks made in private.

Both, over the top discipline, whereas the players can murder someone and still be legible to play.  Josh Brent may even come out of self appointed retirement to get back on the Cowboys roster while defending himself against manslaughter charges after killing a teammate while driving drunk.

He is eligible to play in the NFL.

I wonder how much cr@p they don't have to tell the public about because of the labor contract with the owners.  Last year, after someone was suspended they stated that testing positive for drugs did not have to be disclosed unless they were performance enhancing.  What else falls in the 'public can suck it' part of their contract.

I do remember getting a good rogering from you over the use of 'public' when I initially reported this, good to see you believing elevators in hotels are public areas.

What I find most disturbing, his entire reaction is the reaction of someone who has experience with it and thinks it's no big deal.  Like me behaving to someone throwing a ball at me, I catch it, toss it back, and go about my business.  The man of muscle can't even find it in him to carry her, he drags her and leaves her on the floor as seems to be looking for a bellhop to carry her up to the room for him.

And her, seriously, your boyfriend knocks you out a week before the wedding, not only do you marry him, you tell people, including the NFL, you goaded him into doing it.  Which of course is what all the pigs ran with, "She's cool with it so what's the big deal ?"

I would like to think any woman who gets knocked by her man would leave as soon as humanly possible.  I moved out long ago in about 3 hours after my woman threatened to call the cops and tell them I was hitting her.  I was not hanging around to find how deep that craZy hole went.  For the record, I have never hit a woman in my life.

I used to go out with a girl who had been married to a cop.  She would never call the department he was at, even though all the other cops hated him, because at some point, it would effect her income for the kids.  He never hit her, but I quit drinking and driving after I spotted him more than once outside my place in the AM.

What you saw - what everyone has seen - was a woman, clearly either unconscious or so drunk she couldn't function, being dragged out of the elevator.  Period.  You don't know what her condition was before she got on the elevator, and you don't know what transpired on the elevator.

So, tell me again: what happened to Janay Palmer?  What have you seen that no one else has?  Something apparently did happen that Rice feels responsible for, and he's accepted that responsibility, but that doesn't mean you know any more than the rest of us what took place in that elevator.

Charles Pierce

They left the body in the street.

Dictators leave bodies in the street.

Petty local satraps leave bodies in the street.

Warlords leave bodies in the street.

A police officer shot Michael Brown to death. And they left his body in the street. For four hours. Bodies do not lie in the street for four hours. Not in an advanced society. Bodies lie in the street for four hours in small countries where they have perpetual civil war. Bodies lie in the street for four hours on back roads where people fight over the bare necessities of simple living, where they fight over food and water and small, useless parcels of land. Bodies lie in the street for four hours in places in which poor people fight as proxies for rich people in distant places, where they fight as proxies for the men who dig out the diamonds, or who drill out the oil, or who set ancient tribal grudges aflame for modern imperial purposes that are as far from the original grudges as bullets are from bows. Those are the places where they leave bodies in the street, as object lessons, or to make a point, or because there isn't the money to take the bodies away and bury them, or because nobody gives a damn whether they are there or not. Those are the places where they leave bodies in the street.

Bodies are not left in the streets of the leafy suburbs. The bodies of dogs and cats, or squirrels and raccoons, let alone the bodies of children, are not left in the streets of the leafy suburbs. No bodies are left in the streets of the financial districts. Freeze to death on a bench in the financial districts and you are whisked away before your inconvenient body can disturb the folks in line at the Starbucks across the street. But the body of a boy can be left in the street for four hours in a place like Ferguson, Missouri, and who knows whether it was because people wanted to make a point, or because nobody gave a damn whether he was there or not. Ferguson, Missouri was a place where they left a body in the street. For four hours. And the rage rose, and the backlash built, and the cameras arrived, and so did the cops, and the thing became something beyond what it was in the first place. And, in a very real way, in the streets of Ferguson, the body was still in the street.

The final volley of shots was fired 12:02:15 [75 seconds after meeting him on the street]

The Black Canseco video began recording the scene at 12:06:30 -- before the County Police even knew that there had been a shooting.

By that time there were FPD units on the scene and the yellow tape was already up all the way around.

FPD never notified the County about the shooting -- County Police heard about it from the news and dispatched police to secure the scene at 12:07. Repeated calls from the County to Ferguson for clarification went unanswered.

It isn't until 12:16 when the County Police arrive that Wilson decides to cover the body.

You have that wrong.

You forgot about the 3 bullets that were fired at him as he stood still with his hands up BEFORE he moved forward:

Here is the precise statement from the article that you posted:

"After the third shot, Brown's hands started going down, and he moved about 25 feet toward Wilson, who kept backing away and firing."

After the third shot