I’m lost, what’s the lie here? This matter in Ferguson is similar to the Martin case. In both an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed. Yes, the circumstances surrounding how they got shot are different. In Martin a private citizen defended himself, in this new case a police officer was involved though because the investigation isn’t complete the circumstances of the shooting aren’t known yet.
“In Martin a private citizen defended himself, in this new case a police officer was involved...”
You answered your own question.
My reading (and I said clearly that I went no further than the first two sentences) was that the purpose of the opening is to suggest that Trayvon Martin was an innocent who was killed without provocation as is the second sentence intended for Michael Brown. Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman in self defense - all the evidence suggests it and in fact a court held as much despite what the nay-sayers say.
Just because a young black man is killed does not mean there is an equivalence from one event to the next nor does it mean in any way there is a similarity