It's only a non-factor in that the officer didn't know. But what would you be thinking if you just robbed a store 10 mins ago and then a cop stops you? Would you think he knew?

Dude, really? 6'4, 300lbs is not a "large child", that's a big dude even in the NFL.

I promise you if a 120lb white kid attacks a cop, any cop anywhere would pull his gun. This discussion is regarding the hypothetical that the officer is *not* lying and that his version of events are accurate.

You are literally responding to a thread which is talking about how the robbery was not the motive for the officer shooting Michael Brown. Please stop arguing against straw men.

I think that's a painfully one-sided view of events. Most cops don't carry rubber bullets and many cops don't carry tazers (I legitimately don't know if Wilson was carrying one at that point). If (and that's a big if) the officer is to be believed, he was attacked inside the car. At that point it would be his job to…

Shoplifting is thought of as a kiddie crime. What happened in that video was not shoplifting. It's robbery by force. When he turns around to confront that shopkeeper, he is performing a violent action. That is what makes him a criminal with potential violent tendencies, not the fact that he stole something.

Have you ever shot a gun?

The issue is that "plenty of claims" isn't exactly evidence. You know what I mean? It's certainly possible that Brown was surrendering/retreating with his hands up, and in that case it's absolutely not self-defense and the officer should be charged with murder and put in jail. What bothers me is why "plenty of claims"…

"Police officers are instructed to aim for center mass," NYPD spokesman Paul Browne explains. "You are looking to stop the individual, and that is the largest target." Center mass means the "head and torso," and a former commander of the NYPD's firearms training section says, "You can't just shoot to aim for a leg or…

"He deserved to die because he shoplifted." "Well, there was marijuana in his system so, of course, he was a thug whose life meant nothing."

The worst part to me is how the World Cup could be given to a country with no soccer history whatsoever.

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This is asking about use at all in the last 12 months. Lots of people smoke a cigarette here and there when drinking.

I mean, it's a very intense workout. It's more suited to firefighters/cops/military than someone fresh off the couch. I'm not surprised people get injured doing it, they're also doing so much more intense stuff than someone just strength training at a gym.

I'm going to crossfit to do crossfit workouts. I'm doing crossfit workouts at a gym instead of at home or my local gym because I want the trainer supervision. If your point is that crossfit trainers are bad trainers, that's a pretty broad generalization and you've never met the trainers at my gym.

Good for you. Glad you work out better alone. I personally enjoy having programming set for me and working out with other people.

There are crossfit workouts that ask for "strict pullups" and ones that ask for "pullups". As someone who has worked out at crossfit gyms, I just wish they called what they call "strict pullups" "pullups" and what they call "pullups" "swing-ups" or something. Just to stop this line of argument from people. They're NOT…

Not all of them. Yes there are bad crossfit trainers. Probably more (percentage wise) than bad trainers at other types of gyms, especially since the crossfit workouts are more dangerous. That doesn't mean there aren't good ones! There are plenty of GOOD crossfit gyms too.

You mean there's bad franchises? Of course. The one I go to is *not* one of those. It's the problem with a franchise model. I don't pay money to attend any other crossfit gym, I pay money to attend the one I do, with trainers that *do* know what proper form is.

Doing heavy olympic lifts with bad form is an easy way to get hurt. Trainers help you make sure you're doing things right, help you stretch and recover, and having other people there doing it with you is a big motivating factor.