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

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103. we still don't know what happened after he was first stopped by the police

We know the outcome, which was tragic, and wrong. I don't care if they were in a scuffle in the police cruiser and Brown was wrestling for the gun. Why was he wrestling for the gun? That's what we need to know.

According to the Thom Hartman video on the front page, the two youth were walking down the middle of the street and the officer pulled up and said something to the affect "get the fuck on the sidewalk". The surviving youth (a girl apparently, named Doran Johnson) said they were almost home and they would be out of the street in a moment. Well that was a mistake...arguing with a policeman while black.

All kids walk and play in residential streets. Why would police be harrassing them for that? Sounds like the cop had a bad attitude before anything even happened. And it escalated from there. I'm hoping we can get some honest answers from witnesses. I wish there was a cam on the cop car to record all this. I don't expect to get an honest answer from this cop.