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Michael Brown remembered as a 'gentle giant' [Media Hype over St. Louis Teen?]
St Louis Post Dispatch ^ | Elisa Crouch

Posted on 08/12/2014 6:45:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

....Brown, 18, died Saturday after a Ferguson police officer shot him multiple times outside an apartment complex. Brown was two days from starting class at Vatterott College. Close friends had been packing up and departing for schools such as Kansas State University and Arkansas Baptist University on sports scholarships.

“Everyone else wanted to be a football player, a basketball player,” said Gerard Fuller, who had known Brown since second grade at Pine Lawn Elementary School. “He wanted to own his own business. He’d say, ‘Let’s make something out of nothing.’”....

“It hurt so bad to get that phone call,” Jenkins said...."Mike used to sell candy in middle school. I’d come up to Mike and say, ‘Mike, let me get some Skittles or something.’

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: journalism; objective; race; riots; skittles
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The media is already beginning to try and make this fellow look like Trayvon Martin, who attacked George Zimmerman.

The photo being used by many media outlets is one that is obviously several years old...when he was young. Notice the mention of Skittles in the article....

The family has hired the "lawyer" who represented the family of the teen who attacked George Zimmerman.

Also, notice no mention that Mr. Brown a clean police or school record....which means that either no one in the media ASKED or that no one in the media wants to know the facts.

1 posted on 08/12/2014 6:45:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Well now we have two in Brown and Trayvon, only need one more and we’ll have the new Holy Trinity.


2 posted on 08/12/2014 6:46:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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"Well now we have two in Brown and Trayvon, only need one more and we’ll have the new Holy Trinity."

Their demonic disciples are already looting their "free phones and TVs," burning, and throwing bricks at cars on I-270.

3 posted on 08/12/2014 6:50:31 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: SoFloFreeper

From all indications he was a good kid. Going to start heating/cooling school this week. Way better kid than Trayvon.


4 posted on 08/12/2014 6:52:48 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So if he was so exceptional why do the photos show him with body language of contempt and flashing a gang sign?


5 posted on 08/12/2014 6:59:33 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: SoFloFreeper

For later


6 posted on 08/12/2014 6:59:47 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: SoFloFreeper

So what was the deal? Why was he inside the police car?


7 posted on 08/12/2014 7:01:06 AM PDT by wordsofearnest (Proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs it. C.S. Lewis)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I’m sure it will all come out in the wash but this one feels a bit different. I thought the kid that was with him that gave his version of events seemed believable.

The tone of the police response in this instance has seemed excessive and confrontational. It seems to be agitating rather than helping.

I thought Trayvon was a thug from the beginning. My gut feels differently this time.


8 posted on 08/12/2014 7:01:31 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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That is my initial reading too.....But the media is singularly untrustworthy, thus I posted this article picking apart the pieces with skepticism.....

I think the media has a huge agenda to propagate....and any light that may show this young man in a negative way will likely be squashed.


9 posted on 08/12/2014 7:02:00 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Portcall24

1 of 5 photos show him doing that, to them it is the same as flipping the bird.


10 posted on 08/12/2014 7:02:22 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: cdga5for4

The guy was caught stealing.


11 posted on 08/12/2014 7:03:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SoFloFreeper

Rev Al Sharpton will in in St Louis today and will likely be given us AWL KINNA answers to these and other pressuring questions...

in related news,....

St Louis primed to go postal bt Labor Day

developing


12 posted on 08/12/2014 7:04:44 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: cdga5for4

I think you need a gut check.


13 posted on 08/12/2014 7:06:14 AM PDT by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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Saint Trayvon was also classified as a “gentle giant”...until they saw the blood on GZ’s head and saw the results of the toxicology report.
14 posted on 08/12/2014 7:07:26 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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Did You Know?

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Now That You Do, Donate And Keep FR Running


15 posted on 08/12/2014 7:08:02 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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The St. Skittles Trinity?
16 posted on 08/12/2014 7:08:38 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Maybe, maybe not. The fact is you don’t know either. I may be wrong. The kid did graduate from high school, which is a hell of a lot better than most of his counterparts. He was going to college.

Maybe he did try to wrestle the gun away from the cop. Maybe he didn’t.


17 posted on 08/12/2014 7:09:05 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: MeshugeMikey

This can spread to every major dem city in America. Glad i prepped.


18 posted on 08/12/2014 7:09:09 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: SoFloFreeper

This “unarmed teen” has been charged with :

Description: Burglary – 1st Degree { Felony B RSMo: 569.160 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 1401000
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD

Next Charge/Judgment

Description: Armed Criminal Action { Felony Unclassified RSMo: 571.015 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 3101000
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD

Next Charge/Judgment

Description: Assault 1st Degree – Serious Physical Injury { Felony A RSMo: 565.050 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 1301100
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD

Next Charge/Judgment

Description: Armed Criminal Action { Felony Unclassified RSMo: 571.015 }
Date: 11/02/2013 Code: 3101000
OCN: AJ006207 Arresting Agency: ST ANN PD


19 posted on 08/12/2014 7:09:11 AM PDT by harwood (You don't wanna go there.)
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It seems to be agitating rather than helping.

Although I've *never* been stopped by the police I've always known that if I was I'd immediately (and meekly) obey all commands,no mater how unfair they seemed to be.And if,when the dust had settled I decided I was mistreated I'd hire a lawyer and sue everyone in sight.

20 posted on 08/12/2014 7:12:14 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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