Lee Oswald The Cop Killer

[Richard Smith]

You're finally piecing this together.

Yep, Saint Oz needed to explain why a shoe salesman thought he was ducking the cops.

Turns out the shoe salesman was correct in his suspicions.

So Saint Oz made the very poor decision to throw a punch and pull his gun.

Which resulted in him getting his face caved in and arrested.

Kudos to the alert shoe salesman, Johnny Brewer.


Looking funny isn't a crime. If it was, you'd have been locked up a long time ago.

It's hopeless with these kooks.  Oswald was reported by a citizen as acting suspiciously in the vicinity, both in time and place, to a murder.  In addition, he has snuck into a movie theatre without buying a ticket (i.e. committed a crime).  As a result, the police had reasonable grounds to question him on that basis.  Given that they were looking for a murder suspect, they had every reason to approach him as a potentially dangerous individual.  He may or may not have turned out to be their suspect but for their own protection they have to proceed with caution which they fortunately did.  Oswald's reaction in assaulting a police officer provides ample grounds to take him into custody.  Whether that arrest is attributed to assaulting a police officer or murder per se is a pedantic distinction at that point.  Oswald's behavior has provided grounds to take him into custody.  It also provides grounds to suspect he is their murder suspect.  The subsequent investigation confirms he is their murder suspect.  Thus, after the fact, it is reasonable to deem the arrest as being for murder even if the arresting officers at that moment would not have been 100% certain Oswald was their guy and were taking him into custody primarily for his assault on a police officer. 

[Ray Mitcham]

Typical response of a lamer (average consumer, non-techie)... no knowledge on how to protect oneself online... or even aware of the danger that exists.

Not being security aware and therefore not knowing how to take preemptive action is tantamount to leaving your front door wide open. Well, 'get the fck off my lawn' is my response to hackers, in the form of front-end countermeasures like Little Snitch.

How old are you, Bill? Grow up for goodness sake.

[Bill Chapman]

Caprio still has no idea how to comprehend what he reads.

It takes a special kind of crazy to come up with what these crackpots upchuck...

[Bill Chapman]

How old are you, Bill? Grow up for goodness sake.

Another non-answer... nice dodge

[Bill Chapman]

They didn't arrest him for "taking the first punch" -- they arrested him for murder.  And the check boxes on the arrest report for "fought", "resisted", and for "officer injured" are not checked.

Go and punch a cop and see if you don't get a ride downtown.

None of the other boxes in that section are checked either. That's left for nerdy office guys in glasses to get all uppity & anal about.

[Bill Chapman]

You're finally piecing this together.

Yep, Saint Oz needed to explain why a shoe salesman thought he was ducking the cops.

Turns out the shoe salesman was correct in his suspicions.

So Saint Oz made the very poor decision to throw a punch and pull his gun.

Which resulted in him getting his face caved in and arrested.

Kudos to the alert shoe salesman, Johnny Brewer.


Looking funny isn't a crime. If it was, you'd have been locked up a long time ago.

Notice how PaidToPostJohnny keeps reminding us that Brewer is a shoe salesman.
Guess he can't get over the fact that this particular shoe salesman 'fingered' his hero

[Zeon Mason]

The problem I have with the encounter with Oswald in the Texas Theater is the way he was approached by the DPD, and specifically, McDonald.

If they believed that Oswald was the killer of Tippet, and also possilby the JFK assassin, it would seem to me they would have had guns drawn, pointing at the suspect and yelling at him to place his hands on his head and dont move BEFORE any DPD ever get close to him.

[Richard Smith]

The problem I have with the encounter with Oswald in the Texas Theater is the way he was approached by the DPD, and specifically, McDonald.

If they believed that Oswald was the killer of Tippet, and also possilby the JFK assassin, it would seem to me they would have had guns drawn, pointing at the suspect and yelling at him to place his hands on his head and dont move BEFORE any DPD ever get close to him.

They may have been trying to avoid provoking a gun battle in a movie theatre.  By checking others and approaching Oswald indirectly, they tried to momentarily fool him into hoping that maybe they were not on to him or might by pass him.  That gave them a chance to close the distance.  They also were not 100% certain he was their murder suspect.  At that point he is a guy behaving suspiciously in the vicinity of the crime.  Certainly worth checking out and being cautious with.   In all likelihood they were going to question him, search him, and make an assessment as to whether to take him in.  Oswald makes it all moot by assaulting a police officer and having a pistol on him.  After that he is going into custody as their murder suspect.