Did LHO know how to drive? Does it matter?

[Rob Caprio]

If mass shootings are rare then obviously you don't need a gun for protection, so tell us why do you need a gun?

JohnM

So you think mass shootings are the only danger? 🤣

[Richard Smith]

A guy (any guy) punches a cop in the mouth. That's reason enough to take him downtown for questioning and  the likelihood of being charged with assaulting a police officer. In Oswald's case it all snowballed from there.

Entering a movie theatre without buying a ticket is also a crime.  That alone would allow the police to approach Oswald to question him.  Of course, under the circumstance, they would not just be approaching a guy who hadn't bought a movie ticket but also a potential suspect in the murder of a police officer.  Given the proximity in both time and distance to the crime, a person reported acting suspiciously, like Oswald, would be grounds for the police to proceed as though he might be armed and dangerous.  Which, of course, he was.  Had he been innocent and capable of explaining himself like the guy similarly confronted at the library, he might have gone on his merry way.  Unfortunately for the strawman brothers and their kooky CT kindred, their hero Oswald was stone cold guilty. He even had the murder weapon on him.  It was "all over now" as their hero acknowledged.

[Rob Caprio]

Entering a movie theatre without buying a ticket is also a crime.  That alone would allow the police to approach Oswald to question him.  Of course, under the circumstance, they would not just be approaching a guy who hadn't bought a movie ticket but also a potential suspect in the murder of a police officer.  Given the proximity in both time and distance to the crime, a person reported acting suspiciously, like Oswald, would be grounds for the police to proceed as though he might be armed and dangerous.  Which, of course, he was.  Had he been innocent and capable of explaining himself like the guy similarly confronted at the library, he might have gone on his merry way.  Unfortunately for the strawman brothers and their kooky CT kindred, their hero Oswald was stone cold guilty. He even had the murder weapon on him.  It was "all over now" as their hero acknowledged.

Except there is no evidence that he entered the TT without paying.

[Richard Smith]

Except there is no evidence that he entered the TT without paying.

No evidence?  The police received a call from Julia Postal - the TT ticket seller - indicating that a man had just entered the theatre without buying a ticket.  That is the report that they received as confirmed by her affidavit.  Even if you entertain some kooky theory (with absolutely no evidence) that Oswald bought a ticket, the police were operating on a report that he had not.  They had every good reason, therefore, to approach him and check him out. 

[John Iacoletti]

Given that Julia Postal was out of her booth looking west down Jefferson at the time this man allegedly entered the theater, and given that she told Brewer that she wasn't sure whether he bought a ticket or not, is there any independent confirmation that she actually told the police dispatcher that Brewer's man didn't buy a ticket?  They obviously didn't question Oswald about buying a ticket, they illegally searched him, assaulted him, and arrested him for murder.

[Rob Caprio]

No evidence?  The police received a call from Julia Postal - the TT ticket seller - indicating that a man had just entered the theatre without buying a ticket.  That is the report that they received as confirmed by her affidavit.  Even if you entertain some kooky theory (with absolutely no evidence) that Oswald bought a ticket, the police were operating on a report that he had not.  They had every good reason, therefore, to approach him and check him out.

Quote her saying this. John I. and others have cited/quoted documents repeatedly showing that she wasn't sure if she sold a ticket or not. Furthermore, since she was out at the curb she couldn't have even seen the man Brewer allegedly saw.