Why commemorate Michael Brown? He was a criminal who tried to kill a police officer. Ask Eric Holder.

Why do I think he would have killed somebody else if he lived? Michael Brown was a bully and a violent hoodlum. He bullied the store clerk. His walking in the middle of the street in his huge frame was quintessential bully behavior. It was saying to the rest of the neighborhood "Take that! Ha. ha." He deserved to get cussed at for it by the cop. People like Michael Brown take pleasure in hurting other people. In the contemporary ghetto context bullies tend to end up using not just fists but guns and knives as well to bully.

He didn't die because he shoplifted. He died because he got cocky and charged a cop.

Brown wasn't innocent. Freddy wasn't innocent. That fat guy selling untaxed singles wasn't innocent. They were all resisting arrest in some way.

Don't resist arrest.

Hi Marie, welcome back. Haven't seen you in ages. I've missed you.

Thing is, nobody seems to care about Tamir Rice, 12 year old shot down while playing with a toy gun. There are huge pockets of problems, but this isn't *really* about justice and preventing abuse of power so those pockets of real problems will not be addressed. And it isn't really about ending bigotry. It's about shifting the bigotry around.

I find the Rice case very disturbing. A whole different thing from the Missouri case in my view. However it's worth noting that US police shoot more often in confrontations with whites than in confrontations with blacks. We have no basis for assuming that problematic shootings are a lower percentage with the police-on-white shootings than with police-on-black shootings. The difference is that the liberal media is not interested in questionable cases of police shooting whites.

They know what he did. It's what they have consciously and willfully decided fits into their cosy narrative.