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re: Fergusons famed and reliable "witness 40"--
Posted on 12/19/14 at 10:58 am to DawgfaninCa
Posted on 12/19/14 at 10:58 am to DawgfaninCa
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Fergusons famed and reliable "witness 40"--
I refuse to call a kid a "thug"
What would you call a 6' 4", 280 pound, 18 year old male who walks into a store, grabs whatever he wants then as he walks out of the store threatens and pushes the store clerk who tries to stop him?
A saint?
I will afford that kid the same benefit of the doubt or lapse in judgement that was given to everyone that I knew from college that got in brawls at bars, got DWIs, got MIPS, committed vehicular homicide, did truck loads of drugs, got arrested, spent nights in jail, stole from campus cafeterias and from off campus liquor stores, etc.
All those "kids" went on to be successful CFAs, CPAs, JDs, MDs, etc.
I'll call it what it is--a lapse in judgement. I nor you know enough about that kids life to condemn him as a thug. His last moments surely didn show him to be an angel, but that's all we have. I refuse to be as short sighted as those that cast him as a street thug who got what he deserved. If that's the case, then we have many successful street thugs cloaked as business people, lawyers and doctors.
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Posted on 12/19/14 at 11:03 am to StrongSafety
You should read this book.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 11:13 am to StrongSafety
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I will afford that kid the same benefit of the doubt or lapse in judgement that was given to everyone that I knew from college that got in brawls at bars, got DWIs, got MIPS, committed vehicular homicide, did truck loads of drugs, got arrested, spent nights in jail, stole from campus cafeterias and from off campus liquor stores, etc.
Do you know why those kids are alive?
They didn't grab a gun from a fricking cop.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 11:58 am to StrongSafety
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I will afford that kid the same benefit of the doubt or lapse in judgement that was given to everyone that I knew from college that got in brawls at bars, got DWIs, got MIPS, committed vehicular homicide, did truck loads of drugs, got arrested, spent nights in jail, stole from campus cafeterias and from off campus liquor stores, etc.
All those "kids" went on to be successful CFAs, CPAs, JDs, MDs, etc.
I'll call it what it is--a lapse in judgement. I nor you know enough about that kids life to condemn him as a thug. His last moments surely didn show him to be an angel, but that's all we have. I refuse to be as short sighted as those that cast him as a street thug who got what he deserved. If that's the case, then we have many successful street thugs cloaked as business people, lawyers and doctors.
There is NOTHING Brown could have done for SS to consider him a criminal or a thug. He was simply a good boy that made some bad choices.
Following this reasoning, no one should ever be considered a thug or a criminal. Although, I doubt SS would be so willing to withhold judgement if we were discussing Timothy VcVeigh.
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