Completely missing is the context. Be truthful, media. He was unarmed, according to reports, because he was unable to take the gun away from the police officer.Assuming he was trying to take a gun from the police officer -- and that's a really bold assumption right now -- by every account that I have read, the cop was 35 feet from an unarmed Brown when he opened fire. Even under the laws of the most gun-friendly states, a private citizen who used deadly force after the imminent threat was no longer a threat, would be sitting in jail right now.
The investigation isn't complete so we don't know if he was trying to take the gun from the officer, but according to witnesses, he WAS "tussling with the cop". This could support the assertion that he was trying to grab the officer's gun, but more importantly, WHY was he "tussling with the cop"? I couldn't ever imagine tussling with a cop.
He wasn't just standing there.