“Reports are that Michael Brown shoved an officer into a squad car as the officer was attempting to exit the car.
Not at all comparable to Trayvon Martin.”
Exactly comparable to Travon. Tell me the basic difference between shoving a cop in a squad car and throwing a much smaller man on the ground, straddling him and bashing his head on the pavement. Both cases are exactly the same, no possible reason to rule it anything but self defense.
Difference is, it is acknowledged that he assaulted the police, there is no way that it can be spun that race was a factor, that the cop shot him because of race. It is acknowledged that he attacked the cop.
Crump, Sharpton, et al will try to make it that the cop attacked Brown because of race - which is a lie. The cop shot because he was attacked. He was attacked in broad daylight.
Brown broke off the attack and fled and the officer shot him several times. I am not excusing or justifying that, but it is not race driven - just adrenalin driven.
The difference from Martin-Zimmerman is that it is not disputed who the attacker was.
You’re right, it is self defense. In that way it is similar. What I was trying to get at is that unlike Martin/Zimmerman it is not disputed who the attacker is here.