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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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LoadedGuns

Michael Brown did not deserve to get shot. His hands were in the air. It was just another act of the police abusing their power.

conceptualclarity · M

Two thorough investigations established that his hands were NOT in the air. He did deserve to get shot. And if he had lived he would have killed somebody else sooner or later.

LoadedGuns

Why do you think that?

LoadedGuns

He stole something that was about $2. He did not deserve to die for that. Some kid just shot up a church and he got to wear a bulletproof vest while he was escorted calmly to the cop car. Where is the logic?

LoadedGuns

If you steal some cigarillos from a crappy convenient store, you die. You murder innocent people, you live.

SunshineEddy

Nobody is trying to argue he died for stealing $2 worth of merchandise. The actual argument - strike that - FACT is that he tried to forcefully and violently take an officer's weapon and died when that officer defended his own right to life.
That $2 argument is completely irrelevant and nothing more than a straw man fallacy.
Try harder.
But in this case, it will never work. Every man has the right to defend his own life. Even white cops.
FYI, I don't think anyone deserves to die, but raging against the death of a grown man who chose to violently attack an armed man is about as useful as raging at the mountain your friend jumped off of rather than the faulty chute that didn't catch him.

conceptualclarity · M

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.

TwylaMarie

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

TwylaMarie

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.