The “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative was a head fake from the beginning, and the fear and intimidation enforced by the hotheads in the community was really the only thing that kept it going.
Michael Brown was attempting an around the shoulders flying tackle of the police officer Darren Wilson, but in his state of diminished judgment, miscalculated the distance involved and the very long risk he was taking. Kind of like facing a charging bear.
Is it possible that under Eric “the” Holder’s witness protection programs that resettlement actually means you really disappear never to be seen nor heard of or from again, as in a Dead-end one-way ticket to paradise? Maybe stitches for snitches was a very humane program;)