The "smirk"

[Bill Chapman]

No it means that no matter how closely they matched, it would never be good enough for you.

The police didn't need a perfect match. The running into the library by Hamby was mistakenly taken to be running to hide from the police search. LHO's actions aroused the suspicions of Brewer and Postal. They reported it to the police. That was enough for the police to investigate.

I think you've just set JudgeJohnny's powdered wig on fire.

[Charles Collins]

I think you've just set JudgeJohnny's powdered wig on fire.

I feel really bad about that. I mean, he never ruffles anyone’s feathers.

[Jack Trojan]

As a longtime illustrator specializing in people, and having drawn hundreds of life portraits and figures, I have a professional-level set of skills that qualify my opinion as to people's expressions.

Do tell us what set of professional-level skills you can offer that would place you in a similar position.

LOL. Are you a professional mind-reading psychologist illustrator?

[John Iacoletti]

The civil rights movement brought about rebellions and challenges:

The street-level challenge to stop-and-search policing made its way to the US Supreme Court in June 1968. In Terry v. Ohio, the Court upheld the principles underlying stop-and-search policing, and determined that the threshold for a “stop-and-frisk” was an officer’s reasonable and articulable suspicion— not probable cause— that a person was involved in crime and was armed.

Warren wrote the majority opinion. Stop-and-frisk became official federal policy and the strategic cornerstone of the “war on crime” that followed.

. . . Which matches what I said. Terry v. Ohio created the reasonable suspicion standard to frisk for weapons. Before that, the standard was probable cause. The problem is that they didn’t even have grounds for any reasonable suspicion that Oswald was involved in a crime and was armed. He didn’t match the description and Brewer didn’t see a weapon.

The point is that the scuffle and gun were the reasonable cause for the arrest.

Again, he was arrested for murder. In order to do that, they needed probable cause when they made the arrest that he murdered somebody. They had none. The arrest report says nothing about an officer being punched or a trigger being pulled in the theater, or of resisting arrest — which points to those claims being invented after the fact in order to rationalize the police misconduct.

[John Iacoletti]

No it means that no matter how closely they matched, it would never be good enough for you.

That’s a hypothetical that you couldn’t possibly know for a fact. But your claim was that he “matched the description”. HOW?

The running into the library by Hamby was mistakenly taken to be running to hide from the police search. LHO's actions aroused the suspicions of Brewer and Postal. They reported it to the police. That was enough for the police to investigate.

Police can investigate whatever they want. To search, detain, beat up, and arrest, they require more than “aroused suspicions”.

[John Iacoletti]

As a longtime illustrator specializing in people, and having drawn hundreds of life portraits and figures, I have a professional-level set of skills that qualify my opinion as to people's expressions.

How interesting. And utterly irrelevant.

Who gives a damn what constitutes a “smirk”?

[John Iacoletti]

I feel really bad about that. I mean, he never ruffles anyone’s feathers.

The only people who are “ruffled” are the people complaining about a “perfect match” standard when there wasn’t a match in any sense of the word.

Which happens to be the same people complaining about an “impossible evidence” standard when they can’t even come up with a reasonable evidence-based argument to begin with.