It seems to me to be a bit of a stretch to claim that the new video proves that Brown had not been committing a robbery. But it does cast the video of Brown's actions later in the day in a rather different light, raising the possibility that the bag of cigars was not simply "unpaid for merchandise'.
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Re: The Killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson Protests
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It seems to me to be a bit of a stretch to claim that the new video proves that Brown had not been committing a robbery. But it does cast the video of Brown's actions later in the day in a rather different light, raising the possibility that the bag of cigars was not simply "unpaid for merchandise'.
So if the store employee stole the cigars to trade for pot, its still Brown involved in stealing, its just a bigger conspiracy.
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Re: The Killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson Protests
Note that police do kill people unjustly, its just that this is the wrong example.
This example was highlighted to get the idiot class all up in arms against each other, the pro-police vs the anti-police.
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Re: The Killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson Protests
It was a great example of how racism distorts perception, the blatant racism of the cops and how the prosecution was willing to put up liars just to defend the cops.
The store incident didn't really matter unless we're cool with street execution for petty theft.
Re: The Killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson Protests
Seeing everything through the color of a person's skin is racist, Ari.
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Re: The Killing of Michael Brown and the Ferguson Protests
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It was a great example of how racism distorts perception, the blatant racism of the cops and how the prosecution was willing to put up liars just to defend the cops.
The store incident didn't really matter unless we're cool with street execution for petty theft.
I think the store incident mattered in that it was used to make the big kid into a dangerous supercriminal felon. It shouldn't have mattered and it didn't matter to most of us, but it sadly matted way too much to apologists of the murderer.