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In reply to the discussion: I work with teens Michael Brown's age and the number one rule is [View all]rury
(1,021 posts)which you profess to "know," perhaps by osmosis, an execution by an out-of-control cop was NOT the penalty Brown deserved for shoving a store clerk and stealing some cigars. Brown committed petty theft, not some capital crime.
Wilson's response was not appropriate.
When Brown ran away UNARMED, Wilson should have kept his murderous ass in the police car, radioed a description of Brown and asked for backup so that he could have been apprehended and given due process of law. That means an arrest, arraignment and a trial by his peers or a confession, followed by an appropriate punishment in proportion to a minor offense.
Brown did not deserve to be shot because of ''the assault in the store." Nobody was killed or seriously harmed "in the store."