Did Mike Brown grab the gun or not?

[hollowdweller]

60. Here's the question I keep asking.

OK so you are a really big guy, and a cop who hassles you is not.

But anybody who has read the news knows about the Trayvon Martin case and the discussions around black kids getting shot.

So why in the hell would you try to attack a policeman and risk getting shot?? I mean it's obviously been demonstrated more than once that if you are black and they can paint you as a menace that they can get off from killing you.

So why would you do it? He may have smoked a little but there's no evidence he was really drunk or screwed up or anything.

It sort of defies common sense that you would #1 attack an armed policeman esp if you were a black male and #2 charge a policeman after he had already attempted to shoot you.

I mean say he got the officers gun?? What the hell is he going to do with it?? Shoot the cop over jaywalking or stealing some cigars? From what I have read the kid was going to go to college so he's not impulsive like a low IQ person would be. I mean he had some reasoning skills.

I mean maybe the guy was a bully and a badass and was used to throwing his weight around, but to attack an armed officer just stretches my imagination.

Now the Trayvon case. I can totally understand why he attacked him. Strange guy trailing you. You can't lose him. Finally you stand your ground. He doesn't identify himself, and you see he has a gun and you try to get it before he uses it on you.

But Wilson? Attacking a cop? Maybe it happened but it just doesn't make sense.


All I know in both instances you had 2 black kids who were unarmed, one minding his own business and the other who possibly commited a minor offense and both got shot and the guys who offed them walked.