re: Why Does Black Lives Matter Use People Like Michael Brown and Alton Sterling?

he wasn't selling compact discs.....


the media loves to hide behind CDs.....

There's plenty of cases of police over reach. If they picked their cases to riot over a little better they might have a better result.

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Now what does this do for the argument he just robbed the store?

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well, let's say that the cops were called because some assclown is walking down the middle of the street. then he argues with said cop. then he reaches for said cops weapon....same result. dead assclown.

bottom line is that no one cares if he robbed the store or not. fighting with the cop is what got him shot.

can you not wrap your head around this??

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Let's talk about the second surveillance video that was just released of Mike Brown exchanging weed for cigars?

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So he was exchanging weed for cigarillos with store employees, then when the store owner found out and confronted him he assaulted him?

I don't see how this is supposed to help Browns case

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I somewhat agree with this premise, but this doesn't apply to Michael Brown. I understand that maybe he didn't respect the police officer, which is a completely different thread. But when he decided to go after Wilson's gun, all bets are off and Wilson is well within his right to kill Brown.

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And you know what, I agree with you, if that's actually what went on. But wilsons narrative and police departments histories of fabricating stories gives me great pause. The notion we have to believe is that Wilson would never lie under oath and that PDs don't have a history of fabricating stories when they are implicated. For Wilson to feel no remorse, and to expound on the matter as "doing his job" feels cold and fishy and slimy. For the life of me, I hope our Officers don't look at taking down a citizen as "doing your job." (Even though the job does call for it at times).

Far too many times have black folks experience one testimony to justify the murder of a black body, to later find out that it's a fabricated lie (we just found out emit Till accuser was a liar --- a shock to not a black person alive). I offer to you to put yourself in the shoes of an skeptical group of people. When you have history as theirs, skepticism of the truth is warranted and I would argue a survival tactic.


I just cannot take that without a pause. Especially when Wilsons id of the Brown "charge" reads out of 1880s post reconstruction minstrel show.

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So he was exchanging weed for cigarillos with store employees, then when the store owner found out and confronted him he assaulted him?

I don't see how this is supposed to help Browns case

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No joke.

Look, if you go into a store every day and the guy behind the counter gives you a free pack of smokes and then one day you come in and just forcibly take them, that's theft, you don't get to say "hey every other time the worker just gave me the smokes, so this time I just cut out the asking part"

Not that that is any way relevant to why Brown was shot, other than offering further proof of just how stupid he was.

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Ok, let's assume you're right. What does that have to do with him trying to take a cop's gun after assaulting him?

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So if you are walking down the street minding your business and a cop starts fricking with you (physically), you are not going to try and defend yourself?

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And you know what, I agree with you, if that's actually what went on. But wilsons narrative and police departments histories of fabricating stories gives me great pause.

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They found MB's DNA on the gun and witnesses saw him reaching into DW's car

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Many of the towns where these things are happening have black mayors, black police chiefs, majority black city councils, black DAs, black judges, black school boards, as well as majority black populace.

Yet, it's still institutional racism?

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Blacks can perpetuate black racism. How is that shocking

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The notion we have to believe is that Wilson would never lie under oath and that PDs don't have a history of fabricating stories when they are implicated.

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It seems to me from all of my reading on the case though, that the ballistics/forensics backed up Wilson's testimony. And that includes an investigation by the Eric Holder led DOJ. Of course the Ferguson PD wasn't perfect but I don't think they are a "racist" police department.

I have no problem with the black community being skeptical of law enforcement. But at the same time, you can't go around rioting and burning down buildings before ANY investigation commences and we are only dealing with hearsay and anecdotal evidence.

That will not build sympathy with anyone, and will hurt the cause every time.