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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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To: SoFloFreeper
You never get Black on Black murder victims stories since that is just a cultural thing.

Never get the riots and protest when Black on Black.

Thousands more...

21 posted on 08/12/2014 7:12:47 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: SoFloFreeper

Big’mike’s Photos

https://www.facebook.com/Mikestlboii/photos


22 posted on 08/12/2014 7:12:48 AM PDT by maggief
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To: SoFloFreeper

One difference: This guy was killed by a government agent, not a private citizen.
It doesn’t fit the narrative of gun violence.


23 posted on 08/12/2014 7:13:51 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: harwood
This “unarmed teen” has been charged with :

By the time I had reached 20 the only time I had ever been armed was as a Private at Fort Knox,KY.and yet all through my teen years I had never been charged with a *single* crime.Not even littering.

24 posted on 08/12/2014 7:15:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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To: wordsofearnest

It’s a game. They walk down the street and they have to punch anyone who honks at them or they lose the game.


25 posted on 08/12/2014 7:15:07 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’m not talking about the arrest agitating. I’m talking about the last few days.


26 posted on 08/12/2014 7:15:20 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: harwood

Good God! Are you serious? I’ve not seen a SINGLE WORD that begins to reflect any of this. This is true, right?

Thanks


27 posted on 08/12/2014 7:16:34 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Funny.


28 posted on 08/12/2014 7:17:36 AM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: harwood

If you are accurate, then I wonder why the media isn’t reporting....how did you get that info?


29 posted on 08/12/2014 7:17:43 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: harwood

This is why these thugs keep doing it. There is no worry of retribution. Why should he even be on the streets with that record?


30 posted on 08/12/2014 7:20:15 AM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

They reported that he had no adult criminal record. I have seen this floating around as well but seems to be in dispute whether or not it’s the same man.


31 posted on 08/12/2014 7:25:35 AM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: SoFloFreeper

IMHO, it matters not a bit whether Mr. Brown was a good citizen or was stomped to death by a gang of Thugs-N-Uniforms, chanting “Brown Boy, Brown Boy, what Ya gonna do?
What Ya gonna do,
When we stomp on you?”

None of the events of Mr. Brown’s death justify riots wherein theft and property destruction are somehow transformed into justifiable acts because of ANYONE’s death.

Murder is not acceptable, much less murder by cop. But that is not ever a reason for riots and what amounts to an attack on the fabric of American society.

Those low IQ Urban Ferals seem unaware that if the American government fails, they will be the first killed off.

Perhaps they should try these related thoughts on for size:

“Feral Boy, Feral Boy,
What Ya gonna do,
What Ya gonna do, when there’s no check for you?”

The first and most important rules in “Rules For Parasites” are:
1. Do not kill your host.
2. Do not become so burdensome your host resorts to a vermifuge.


32 posted on 08/12/2014 7:27:04 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the officer’s gun was fired once inside the car during a struggle with Brown, hitting no one, and that the officer then fired multiple times at the 18-year-old as he ran away. Police say Brown tried to take the officer’s gun.

Say for the sake of argument that that scenario is 100% accurate and there was a struggle for the gun. It's evident that the struggle was unsuccessful and that Brown didn't get it So at the end of the day the victim was unarmed and fleeing. Why the need to shoot him?

33 posted on 08/12/2014 7:27:22 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DownInFlames

Im certain that The DarkPowers...That Be..are looking forward to the spread of the Conflagration.

with a President..who hangs with Al Sharpton....anything is possible and the likelihood of a series of planned “events is very likely.


34 posted on 08/12/2014 7:28:36 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Carl Vehse
Their demonic disciples are already looting their "free phones and TVs," burning, and throwing bricks at cars on I-270.

Nothing says "we want justice" like looting and attacking passers-by.

35 posted on 08/12/2014 7:33:17 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: wordsofearnest

He was never in that police car, I’ll wager


36 posted on 08/12/2014 7:37:11 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: dfwgator

what guy, what did he steal


37 posted on 08/12/2014 7:37:42 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: cdga5for4

I bet he didn’t, who would be that stupid


38 posted on 08/12/2014 7:38:31 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: harwood

Hey Harwood, all from a single arrest, cops stacking the charges trying to make one stick, defense lawyers see this crap all the time, no convictions? Just arrest? Court won’t even accept it... totally meaningless.


39 posted on 08/12/2014 7:40:15 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Gay State Conservative

You must have grown up in a town where the cops didn’t prey on teens


40 posted on 08/12/2014 7:41:29 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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