Considering he caught the right guy, I'd say it was pretty effective.

Michael Brown is dead because he attacked a police officer and was shot in self-defense. The incident at the store is unrelated, but most people miss him less when they see him beating up an innocent store clerk.

Different incident, but telling of Michael Browns character.

The fact that incident occurred on the same day previous to his encounter with Darren Wilson, shows that it's not farfetched that his interactions towards Wilson also would be negative and violent.

This post was edited by GLYC123 on Jun 9 2020 09:25am

Pill givers do not dodge.




Considering he probably caught him before he was aware a crime happened is just prescient.

With his gun...the ballistics report indicates that he reached inside the vehicle and tried to grab the officers gun and several shots were fired downward from inside the vehicle. Michael Brown suicided by cop because he had TNS. To compare him to George Floyd or Eric Garner is a disgrace to the memory of both those men.

I didn't bring him up or compare the situation.

I would say that BLM originated in Ferguson due to the false narrative (that Brown did nothing wrong, hands up don't shoot, etc.). We've come a long way since then though and it's definitely more main stream now.

I personally find it hard to support a movement when someone like Mike Brown is made into a saint when we literally have evidence of him man handling that small brown store owner or the fact we know he tried fighting the cop and reaching for the gun.

I think BLM and the mob in general needs to be more intelligent and be more objective and selective about which cases/people dying they want to be outraged about. Most people see what happened to Floyd which is objectively bad and will support justice, many people will disagree with BLM when they are excusing and making someone like Mike Brown into a hero regardless of his actions that led to him dying.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Jun 9 2020 02:39pm

It's extremely damaging. Think of the violence that stemmed from the rhetoric of that case? Ferguson got trashed by riots and undoubtedly people got injured and I would argue some of this rhetoric has gotten law enforcement officers and citizens killed.

I can respect a call for criminal justice reform but some of their hasty thoughtless thinking and false statements are creating further racial tensions and causing harm.

This post was edited by GLYC123 on Jun 9 2020 02:49pm

A 150-year-old statue of King Leopold II of Belgium, whose forces seized Congo in the late 19th century and ran an exploitative regime that led to the death of millions, was removed from a public square in Antwerp on Tuesday

This Congolese man is staring at the severed hand and foot of his 5 year old daughter - punishment for not collecting enough rubber for Belgian King Leopold II.

Good lord...