This Is Why We're Mad About the Shooting of Mike Brown

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26. What witnesses?

I don't find his friends story to be credible.

If you are a black person who is explaining that your life has a value no lower than anybody else's, then you are wasting your time.

Because most people do not doubt that.

Mike Brown doesn't matter less to me than Robin Williams, even though I sorta knew and liked Robin Williams. But they are both basically strangers, and for Robin to die at age 63 is, to me, far less of a tragedy than for Mike to die at 18. 63 is a fairly long life, and 18 is just too dang young to die.

But at the same time, IF he did attack that police officer, what then? Is the cop just supposed to stand there and take it? Supposed to have a solid belief that "he's probably a great guy, so I am in no real danger"? Or supposed to think "well he is only hitting me with his fists so I cannot defend myself with my gun?"

That's not how I operate, so I don't expect that of anybody else.