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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I guarantee that I've done much more research on this than you have strictly based off of arguments like this.
Micheal Brown was an ******* kid that may or may have not went for the cops gun. There is evidence pointing towards both points of view. At this point it's up to what you want to believe rather than what's true. But what's true to me is regardless there were better alternatives to handling the situation and using some of the petty ******* **** he did to justify his death is disgusting to me. Most people I know have done worse.
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The overall issue isn't Michael Brown himself. He became a symbol (not the most sympathetic symbol) for the fact that in today's America, blacks are being shot and killed by cops at an alarming rate. "Stupid"/"non-compliant"/"unfortunate"/"mistaken" is far more likely to be fatal to black men than it is to be for white men.
Somehow Brown became the symbol for this problem.