Posted on 08/11/2014 6:06:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FERGUSON, MO — The FBI on Monday launched a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer, an incident that has set off days of unrest in this St. Louis suburb and pushed the question of racial fairness again to the forefront of American life.
Michael Brown, a college-bound 18-year-old, was shot and killed Saturday in this small, predominantly African American city after an apparent confrontation with police officers. His death immediately inspired both solemn vigils and angry protests, which in recent days have left some stores looted, buildings burned and shattered glass in the streets. At least 32 people have been arrested for looting.
Demonstrations showed no sign of abating Monday.
“He was a good boy. He didn’t deserve none of this. None of it,” said Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr., who was one of more than two dozen friends and family members at an afternoon news conference at the Jennings Mason Temple church near St. Louis. “We need justice for our son.”(continued)
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I believe he is white.
Are the black demonstrators and rioters saying he was white? Very odd; if they aren’t saying so, then he probably isn’t.
Hasn’t South Africa been punished enough?
Is that camo factory?
Or an SKS...
Yes, I believe it’s called “Zombie.”
Yes.... it is some truth in it...
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