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Ferguson shooting: What's known now about Michael Brown
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | August 17, 2014 | David Clark Scott,

Posted on 08/17/2014 12:14:50 PM PDT by EveningStar

Michael Brown, aka "Big Mike," has been described as too "gentle" to play football. But a police report released Friday, and photos of Mike Brown flashing 'gang signs,' paint a different portrait of black teenager fatally shot Saturday, Aug. 9.

Was Michael Brown a "gentle giant," a cigar thief, or a gang member?

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: blackkk; ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri; saintskittlesredux
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To: dfwgator

The tight ends had better watch out. He’s coming for them.


41 posted on 08/17/2014 1:18:16 PM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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To: EveningStar

Ferguson schools likely make you maintain a certain grade point average to play sports. Being all RACIST and stuff.


42 posted on 08/17/2014 1:29:45 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: TigerClaws
He was an aspiring gansta rapper:

What a surprise! Next thing, you're gonna tell me he intended to marry one of the mothers of some of his kids, and was working to get his GED.

43 posted on 08/17/2014 1:31:05 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: EveningStar

I think if is sickening that Gov. Nixon deplored the “besmirching of the victim”. First of all, he wasn’t a victim, he was a criminal who had just committed a crime, and to people of normal thinking, releasing the information/video about said crime verified that fact and should have defused the issue. Instead, we get this “gentle giant teen” crap, said gentle giant was 300 lbs, 6’ 4”, and 19, and with a “gangsta” background, and some are indicating he has a juvenile record. I hope the Ferguson police have a toxicology test going separately on his remains, as I wouldn’t trust Holder’s autopsy report.


44 posted on 08/17/2014 1:36:55 PM PDT by kiltie65
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To: EveningStar

All I can tell you is what will never be known. That’s his prior record. Juvi or not, I don’t care, but unless someone hacks it and posts it in the next two days, it will never be seen. In public or in the coming show trial.


45 posted on 08/17/2014 1:42:27 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: MeshugeMikey
"So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
And that's it hangin' on the shed!!"
46 posted on 08/17/2014 2:17:41 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Farmer Dean
The local autopsy will show he was shot with one bullet to the head.

The family autopsy will show one bullet to the head and five to the torso.

The Federal autopsy will show one bullet to the head, five to the torso, four to the back of the head, six to the back of the torso, and one in each buttock.

47 posted on 08/17/2014 2:24:35 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Farmer Dean
But even he is limited. Haven't heard much about his investigation into the Trayvon Martin death. Apparently there wasn't any evidence.

So maybe this situation will end up the same way.

Here is hoping that there is still Justice in the Justice Department. And if they try to do anything funny, the press will be on it.

48 posted on 08/17/2014 2:27:18 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Enterprise

Also, local autopsy will show drugs in system, Federal autopsy will show milk and cookies.


49 posted on 08/17/2014 2:28:13 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (MY COUNTRY WAS OF THEE!!!!)
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To: sweetiepiezer
Federal autopsy will show milk and cookies.

"Cookies?!?!? We'll in that case the punk got what he deserved." - Michelle

50 posted on 08/17/2014 2:30:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sweetiepiezer

LOL - how could I miss that??


51 posted on 08/17/2014 2:31:29 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: EveningStar

They’re trying to paint him as the “Big Mike” character from the Sandra Bullock movie “The Blind Side”.

The cigars are to be emptied of tobacco and filled with weed. That’s the thang they do with them.

“It should go without saying but vaguely intimidating photos of you do not give the police carte blanche to gun you down, and we no longer live in a country where it is OK to sentence black men to death for the crime of petty theft.”

*The cop did NOT shoot him down because of the “petty theft”. He was shot because he had already ASSAULTED a police officer, grabbed for the cops gun - enough for it to fire, ran from the scene, stopped, talked the cop down and then CHARGED at the cop as he approached.

A WHITE guy would have been shot in the same situation.


52 posted on 08/17/2014 2:35:52 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Enterprise

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/168698-eyewitness-recalls-important-detail-background-video-mins-ferguson-shooting/=
Justice to Officer Wilson.


53 posted on 08/17/2014 2:36:02 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (MY COUNTRY WAS OF THEE!!!!)
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To: joethedrummer
They’re trying to paint him as the “Big Mike” character from the Sandra Bullock movie “The Blind Side”.

Or "Radio Raheem" from "Do the Right Thing."

54 posted on 08/17/2014 2:37:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: sweetiepiezer
"It’s far too unlikely that these two accounts are similar accidentally, having been from such disparate sources."

This is key!

55 posted on 08/17/2014 2:41:27 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: upchuck

Local autopsy will show drugs in system. Holder’s “special autopsy” will be “inconclusive” as to drug use. Bank on it.


56 posted on 08/17/2014 2:41:59 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: TigerClaws

https://soundcloud.com/tags/trap%20%23realshit%20%23fuckthebs%20%23stl%20%23314%20%23mytimetoshine

terrific lyrics


57 posted on 08/17/2014 2:44:59 PM PDT by albertabound
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To: sweetiepiezer

Next: A video will surface showing Wilson and another officer doing the Jonah Hill/Channing Tatum first arrest victory celebration from 21 Jump Street.


58 posted on 08/17/2014 2:48:40 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: EveningStar

More likely too lazy to play football. Lots of big people cannot play football because they are merely big.


59 posted on 08/17/2014 3:06:17 PM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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To: Beagle8U
It turns out that the Jolly Teen Giant wasn’t so gentle after all.

Sort of like Fuzzy Wuzzy the bear.

60 posted on 08/17/2014 3:26:31 PM PDT by mc5cents ("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
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