Yeah.....u know what a 9mm does to a leg...nothing. If you shoot, you shoot to kill period. If you want to go non lethal based on the situation, its a different argument. Taser, sting balls..whatever...but no warning shots. Plus comparing America with 350 Million people and Germany or even Iceland..come on.
And your comment is a prime example of why there is a distinction between soldiers & police, ...or at least there ought to be. A soldier is trained to kill the enemy. The police are suppose to Protect & Serve. Cops todays are militarized and every town & community is treated as foreign battle zone with an enemy that needs to be put down, rather than a community that needs to be protected & served.
It is the heavy police presence that escalates the situation and causes these uprisings.
Riots didn't break out until the Police came heavy handedly to break up what was a peaceful protest.
The way they handled the aftermath of the shooting is what made the whole pot boil over.
There was another fatal shooting in St. Louis. Did we see riots taking place there? Did we see riots taking place in California, ...or even in NY after Eric Garner? Why only in Ferguson.
So manyof you are missing the point. This thing has gone way beyond Michael Brown. No one knows what happened that afternoon except Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, and Dorian Johnson. Brown is dead, and Wilson & Johnson have conflicting stories.
What is evident is the Police messed up in the aftermath in a big way. the eyes of the world are upon them, and the police, the media everyone seems to have an agenda, and a spin to which to play to the masses, however, you forget foreign media outlets don't necessarily subscribe to the narratives penned by those with an agenda.
There are International protests against the way the Police in Ferguson handled this as far away as Egypt.
When Egyptian authorities are telling American LEOs to chill out, you know you need to check yourselves.
