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[Virtz]

Not if he was doing it in Dallas, where it is not legal.

"His apartment in California."

Source on that? All the articles I've looked at were vague on that.

[Doomblade187]

It was allegedly his Dallas Apartment? According to this article, but the reason I drop this article is because the Suspects that police say shot him...

live 9 hours round trip away and allegedly drove all the way to this Joshua Brown's apartment to buy just a few pounds of weed.

Article: https://www.theroot.com/nobody-is-buying-dallas-pd-s-bullshit-story-about-joshu-1838917708

[SOLDIER First]

Drove 9 hours to buy weed, shot the dealer, then left both the weed and the money.

[Frumple]

Wacky weed makes you do weird shit man, weird shit.

This feels like something you'd hear about in like... whenever the weed scare was biggest... year anti-drug stuff. First you get high, then you drive for nearabout five hours, then shit happens, you bust a cap in some (not so) rando dealer your stoned ass drove to, then you panicked and left the money and the weed you went after. Then you probably got high again. Stay off drugs, kids!

[Doomblade187]

Drove 9 hours to buy weed, shot the dealer, then left both the weed and the money.

Granted, this story is based off the guy who had he gunshot wound in the hospital - very likely police came to him and promised no prosecution if he just told them how he got there.

Ya know.

[Virtz]

I would note that they theoretically needn't have been there for what was in his apartment. Articles mention the suspects allegedly grabbing a backpack off of Brown, and there's no telling what was there (and assuming it was an actual drug deal at first, the perps probably knew). So the whole "they left with nothing" talk is kind of misleading.

As for the whole character assassination angle in that (wonderfully unbiased) article, didn't Lee Merritt himself say that Joshua Brown wasn't that essential a witness?

"Brown’s testimony was powerful, but it was also duplicative," said Merritt, who has called on the Dallas Police Department to recuse itself from the Brown investigation. "Nothing he testified to couldn’t have been brought in by other witnesses. It wasn’t worth his life."

I'm just having a hard time believing they'd try to cover up with a story as odd as this.

Wacky weed makes you do weird shit man, weird shit.

This feels like something you'd hear about in like... whenever the weed scare was biggest... year anti-drug stuff. First you get high, then you drive for nearabout five hours, then shit happens, you bust a cap in some (not so) rando dealer your stoned ass drove to, then you panicked and left the money and the weed you went after. Then you probably got high again. Stay off drugs, kids!

Sounds like your average Florida Man story, actually. And people in general have done dumber things.

[Kagus]

This feels like something you'd hear about in like... whenever the weed scare was biggest... year anti-drug stuff.

Well the original Reefer Madness came out in 1936 (and later re-cut and re-released a few times), but the scare comes and goes in waves. Like, the upswing in popularity in the 60's and 70's brought its own counter-attention and a lot of it, but you don't often get quite the same ludicrousness as 30's propaganda...

Best to just soothe your throat with the soft, smooth smoke of a Camel cigarette.

[Doomblade187]

Okay, so 1,  we don't know if they actually did grab his backpack.
2, again all this comes from a guy allegedly dropped off in the hospital by the alleged two other peeps who were there. One has already been arrested, I hear, but that's a wait and see situation.
3, police coerce confessions and push for false confessions on the regular - even if he is telling the truth, we don't know yet.
4, the woman who recorded the aftermath of Botham Jean being murdered was harrssed out of her job. Witness harassment has already taken place.
5, activists and witnesses have a history of mysteriously dying. Several activists from Ferguson have died in extremely suspicious ways, which the police consistently rule as "suicide". Not saying suicide doesn't happen, but these were all very prominent activists up there.

That is why the Dallas PD should not be running this investigation. It is, at the very least, extremely bad press for them. They know this, so why are they? They could ask the state troopers to take over.

[itisnotlogical]

That is why the Dallas PD should not be running this investigation. It is, at the very least, extremely bad press for them. They know this, so why are they? They could ask the state troopers to take over.

Bad press might as well be a bad Yelp review. They don't care about bad press or negative public reactions. It's not like you vote for police, and it's already been established that cops and gangsters have "snitches get stitches" in common. No matter how bad it is, the storm will blow past and leave them untouched, any officers other than Guyger who get implicated will receive good ol' "paid administrative leave" i.e. vacation, and it'll disappear when the cops in another city shoot a different unarmed minority.

[Rolan7]

Or they even get fired, justice is done everyone's "happy", and they just get rehired elsewhere. Since that's somehow *normal* much less okay.

[Doomblade187]

Oh, I meant more to make the point to Virtz that it's super shady that they're running the investigation. I definitely agree that they don't care about bad press.

[Iduno]

Bad press might as well be a bad Yelp review. They don't care about bad press or negative public reactions. It's not like you vote for police, and it's already been established that cops and gangsters have "snitches get stitches" in common.

Also, committing murders and thefts. Gangsters usually want the good will of the people to some degree (to keep from getting ratted out), so they don't get down to the bad stuff cops do.

Wacky weed makes you do weird shit man, weird shit.

This feels like something you'd hear about in like... whenever the weed scare was biggest... year anti-drug stuff. First you get high, then you drive for nearabout five hours, then shit happens, you bust a cap in some (not so) rando dealer your stoned ass drove to, then you panicked and left the money and the weed you went after. Then you probably got high again. Stay off drugs, kids!

I love that the propaganda against weed is that it motivates you to do crimes.

[Cthulhu]

Now that you've seen this, consider how many times they didnt botch the coverup

I'm not saying every conspiracy theory is true, but I am saying every conspiracy theory is probably true

[scriver]

Just because you're Paranoid it doesn't mean they're not after you

Courtney Love (LOVE the COURTS) was a fed insider agent and they killed Cobain because he told the truth

[Virtz]

Okay, so 1,  we don't know if they actually did grab his backpack.
2, again all this comes from a guy allegedly dropped off in the hospital by the alleged two other peeps who were there. One has already been arrested, I hear, but that's a wait and see situation.
3, police coerce confessions and push for false confessions on the regular - even if he is telling the truth, we don't know yet.
4, the woman who recorded the aftermath of Botham Jean being murdered was harrssed out of her job. Witness harassment has already taken place.
5, activists and witnesses have a history of mysteriously dying. Several activists from Ferguson have died in extremely suspicious ways, which the police consistently rule as "suicide". Not saying suicide doesn't happen, but these were all very prominent activists up there.

That is why the Dallas PD should not be running this investigation. It is, at the very least, extremely bad press for them. They know this, so why are they? They could ask the state troopers to take over.

I like how you underline allegedly for anything the police say, but what some laid off employee said is undisputable fact despite how weird it sounds (how does a company take away your credentials? And since when do pharmaceutical companies care about publicity? And if they did, wouldn't they have predicted this would be worse? How has the name of the company not leaked after all this time?). For now it's just some unverifiable claims she's used to make money off of gofundme.

I do agree that this is the one time they should involve another agency, tho. There'd still be people screaming "well, the other agency is in on it too! All cops are shit!", but at least it'd be less of them. On the other hand, if they just wait a while it'll be less people anyway. People don't care about what they raged about yesterday, especially when it's proven they were wrong to do so. The quicker they have nothing more to report, the quicker it dies down.