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Time for ALL media to report police statements as "claims" in their reporting and articles. Their word is no better than anyone else's. They have proven that they deserve zero benefit of the doubt.
The report also describes one of the officers at the scene – who has since been charged with second-degree murder – as a “victim.”  

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the cop using the baton to beat Tyre. >

He got pissed off because he's such a stupid fuck he pepper sprayed himself. >

You’re all so mean to the cops.  First they have to deal with domestic violence tendencies, and now you’re picking on a man who pepper sprayed himself before he lost his temper and beat a man to death.  He is also a victim here… of himself! >

So do you think the wind carried it into his face as he was macing Nichols, or did Barney Fife over there yank it out of his holster backwards? >

If you have a crowd of people and deploy an aerosol, everyone will be affected. Simple as. >

Gangs by another name. If you can't be a crook, be a cop! >

The police are the largest organized crime syndicate in America. >

Criminals with badges >

The whole damn bunch needs to go, some of those guys had numerous complaints, they all knew. >

The bigger point is that it is ridiculous we have so little oversight for police that they can easily falsify reports until something horrendous happens that thrusts them into the national spotlight.
Is the only thing police here have going for themselves is that they won’t take bribes… because they could beat the person to death and take all the cash as evidence? >

They did the same trick with bodycams. Bury the footage or take off the vests while screaming “Stop resisting” “Let us see your hands” or “Drop the gun” — even though none of those things are happening. 
Even if the footage does make it to court all the police can say is they thought he was resisting or reaching or grabbing for a weapon. It doesn’t matter if the video shows otherwise. The lawyers will argue these officers are in “dangerous situations” and need to “make decisions in seconds” and they “feared for their life and safety” and hey look the video proves it, you can clearly hear officer yelling at the suspect to drop the gun. 
All it comes down to is did the officer have reasonable suspicion to believe his life was in danger — regardless of the truth. The whole system is fucked. >

And that’s the biggest tell it’s mostly a lie.
If I’m a cop in the US I’m deadly afraid that every bozo can have a gun and a routine stop can potentially become a shootout.
You know what my main fucking concern would be if that’s my life? Campaigning to no end to get guns away from civilians. I don’t feel like dying so I don’t want people I’m inconveniencing to have access to weapons.
Since they absolutely are not doing this, the entire ‘i was scared routine’ is bullshit. >

Of course it wasn't. 
And how many other reports has information like this been left out of?