Ferguson / Staten Island Decisions -- No Indictments

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What Sunshine and RJ said.

 

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The Brown family attorney looks like Isaiah Thomas with similar mannerisms and
speech pattern. I would like to hear him say Anuka

 

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You'd be fully comfortable describing an 18-year-old white college freshman as a kid.

 

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Michael Brown's death, IMHO, is yet another tragic remnant of our country's complicated back-story with regard to race and the black community's history with law enforcement.

Unless you've ever lived in an urban environment, it's impossible to understand the level of mistrust/contempt/hostility many blacks feel for the police officers who patrol their neighborhoods.

It obviously doesn't justify Brown's behavior -- punching Wilson in the face, trying to grab his gun and ultimately charging at him -- but the lack of respect many inner-city black males hold for the police does explain (at least somewhat) why Brown would challenge the authority of a smaller white officer in the first place.

Unfortunately, many of the cities where police-citizen relations are most strained also tend to be the most dangerous.

It's tough to blame officers for having a "shoot first" mentality. They want to go home to their families at the end of their shifts just like the rest of us. I don't doubt there are many times where it is literally a "somebody's going to die here, and it's not gonna be me" scenario.

The problem is, every time a police officer roughs up or shoots a young black man, it becomes that much more impossible for the black community to regard law enforcement with anything less than suspicion.

I don't know how we fix it, but I do know there will be another Michael Brown.

 

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Someone please refresh my memory - did any of the autopsy reports indicate Brown was under the influence? Thanks.

 

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Noted racist Al Sharpton is on the case. Should be helpful.

 

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Twitter promotes desire for cigars.

 

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According to the google, yes.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/report-autopsy-found-marijuana-mike-browns-system/

 

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Thanks, Poin.

 

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If you're the kind of person who has been railing against racism in America re: the Michael Brown shooting and its fallout and you're not outraged by Sharpton insinuating himself into the center of this thing, you're part of the problem.

 

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All the more reason IMO to make it a life's goal never to have any kind of interaction with said officers.

You can't guarantee it, of course, but committing a crime --- any crime --- is pretty much the opposite way to achieve this goal.