This is not how I remember the micheal brown shooting. From wiki

[loyalsister]

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No, Michael Brown was not a squeaky clean suspect- victim. But, that shooting revealed seriously corrupt criminal injustice system.

People in Ferguson were regularly having their lives ruined over parking tickets, and was the case in other locales that black majority populations. Parking tickets along with low level violations with many people could not afford to pay were translated into arrests because warrents were issued to collect those fines. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/03/ferguson-as-a-criminal-conspiracy-against-its-black-residents-michael-brown-department-of-justice-report/386887/

It turned out that Darren Wilson had transferred from Jennings, MO, where the police department was so corrupt and racist that it was disbanded.

Aside from that, Ferguson was built on redlining. While the population shifted, the police departments remained majority white. The presense of racism among STL county police departments is well documented in the DOJ report.

That government, not mere private prejudice, was responsible for segregating greater St. Louis was once conventional informed opinion. A federal appeals court declared 40 years ago that “segregated housing in the St. Louis metropolitan area was … in large measure the result of deliberate racial discrimination in the housing market by the real estate industry and by agencies of the federal, state, and local governments.” Similar observations accurately describe every other large metropolitan area. This history, however, has now largely been forgotten.

Other African Americans followed the Williams family by purchasing homes in Ferguson, but the African American community grew slowly. In 1970, shortly after the family moved to Ferguson, the city’s population was less than 1 percent black. But it had some multifamily buildings that attracted renters from St. Louis. Then, as public housing in St. Louis was demolished in the 1970s, the St. Louis Housing Authority gave relocation assistance to displaced families. It is likely that some of those families moved to Ferguson and other inner-ring suburbs. By 1980, Ferguson was 14 percent black; by 1990, 25 percent; by 2000, 52 percent; and by 2010, 67 percent. Other northern and northwestern suburbs near St. Louis were similarly experiencing an increasing share of black residents during this period. Meanwhile, suburbs beyond the first ring to the south and west of St. Louis have remained almost all white, while the white population share of the city of St. Louis itself has been stable and has even started to grow. St. Louis’s downtown area and neighborhoods west of it to the city border went from 36 percent white in 2000 to 44 percent white in 2010. Within that area, whites are now a solid majority in some neighborhoods for the first time in decades.

http://www.epi.org/publication/making-ferguson/

I point this out because smearing the victim as a distraction from the big picture has a long tradition. It's the reason few have heard of Colleen Culver.