[ealgeone]

With all due respect to his mom, this would have all been avoided had her son complied with the request.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I know, right. All Brown had to do was get out of the road. Sheesh!

[DoughtyOne]

1. could have stayed home like most decent kids that time of night
2. could have refrained from robbing the convenience store
3. could have refrained from assulting the convenience store clerk
4. could have moved off the street for his own safety when asked
5. could have taken a pass on cursing the officer
6. could have taken a pass on assaulting the officer
7. could have taken a pass on charging the officer

Any one of these thing would either have prevented his death, or have made it much less likely to have taken place

Blame to be assigned to the officer?

Get serious. Zero!