You don't "question" somebody by ordering him on his feet and attempting an illegal search. Looking "funny" to a shoe salesman does not constitute "probable cause".
Sure, blame the victim.
There you go again, just assuming the thing you're supposed to be proving.
You have that backwards. The illegal search was an assault on Oswald. He was defending himself.
What evidence did they have to arrest him for murder? Looking "funny" to a shoe salesman?
The description that Postal gave the police dispatcher was nothing like the description that the 10th and Patton witnesses gave. So why would the police consider this man a "suspect"?
The subsequent investigation confirmed nothing of the kind. But even if it did, are you saying the ends justify the means? Civil rights exist for a reason.
The President had been assassinated. A police officer had just been murdered. Brewer, an alert citizen, was instrumental in closing the dragnet on the current prime suspect. Today, Homeland security asks citizens today in their 'See/Say' campaign (and like Jesse Curry asked citizens in a filmed announcement at the outset of the manhunt, to report any persons who seem to be acting suspiciously). Brewer himself was afraid to follow the (to him) suspiciously-acting character in the store window, since he might be armed, but did so anyway.
Funny
haha or funny
strange, John?
Brewer also said the guy he saw in his window look scared.
I was stopped by police and questioned while walking down the street one day. They asked me what I was doing, saying a blonde man was seen breaking into a house (but ran away). The catch was that I'm not blonde. My point is that the DPD were stopping practically anyone who was out on the street. After all, they wouldn't know at that point whether there were other shooters involved, and might have been on the run. And innocent persons would want to cooperate one would think.
"The illegal search was an assault on Oswald. He was defending himself">>>You weren't there... Brewer was, and testified that Oswald threw the first punch.
Now is this where you tell us what Brewer saw or didn't see, John?
Or is he just a liar, like anyone who disagrees with you?
Tell us why Oswald would resist if he was innocent.
Oswald served up his guilt on a silver platter the moment he threw that punch.
Mr. BELIN - Who hit who first?
Mr. BREWER - Oswald hit McDonald first, and he knocked him to the seat.
Mr. BELIN - Who knocked who?
Mr. BREWER - He knocked McDonald down. McDonald fell against one of the seats. And then real quick he was back up.
Mr. BELIN - When you say he was----
Mr. BREWER - McDonald was back up. He just knocked him down for a second and he was back up. And I jumped off the stage and was walking toward that, and I saw this gun come up and----in Oswald's hand, a gun up in the air.
