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In reply to the discussion: Michael Brown roughing up store clerk [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Oh, he is "merely saying..."
They never finish the actual claim because it makes the claim fall apart. If Mike Brown was "grabbing for Wilson's (presumably HOLSTERED!) weapon," it could only be for the purpose of shooting and killing Wilson. We're supposed to believe that because Brown shoved a store clerk, he's also capable of murdering a police officer! That's what the OP is saying, and it is such patent nonsense that anybody with a lick of common experience would scuttle it immediately. We have to put it in its baldest tersm, which the racists and cop fetishists usually avoid, because it sounds so fucking dumb you'd have to be a racist to believe it:
Because he stole the $5 in cigarillos and pushed a store clerk, it's also likely that he attempted to grab a holstered weapon from a police officer for the purpose of killing that police officer.
This is essentially what the OP is saying. Needless to say, it is stupid beyond comprehension.