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

The most liberal agency imaginable, the Eric Holder Justice Department, investigated and found that Officer Darren Wilson was innocent and that Michael Brown was charging him after having previously attempted to grab his gun. Michael Brown is not a martyr. We saw him on video robbing a convenience store and roughing up the clerk. "Hands up, don't shoot" is a lie concocted by his colleague in crime.

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TwylaMarie

This. If police brutality is really so common, couldn't they pick someone better to rally around than a guy leaving a crime where he committed battery and stole stuff?

conceptualclarity · M

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

SunshineEddy

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.

conceptualclarity · M

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.