I hear what you are saying, and agree we need to let this investigation play out.
I think why many are upset here, is because of liberal racial biases that we are supposed to make excuses for ghetto culture and the bad choices these young men made.
In the Brown case, I agree with you to the extent that, the penalty for shoplifting or petty crime, is not to be shot by the police. I too withhold judgement as we wait for the official investigation into this police shooting.
I can empathize with families who have “bad seeds”. But it seems that the ghetto culture spawns many more such people than do middle class families.
“In the Brown case, I agree with you to the extent that, the penalty for shoplifting or petty crime, is not to be shot by the police.”
Assault and robbery, not shoplifting. It is a 5-15 year felony in MO.
You can’t say you want to wait for the facts before judging, and then ignore the facts.
They throw out the racist chum and the sharks circle and so the cycle continues ad nauseam. The stereotypical response to the baiters is to blame the thug culture and bad parenting. What gets shuffled aside is individual identity and responsibility.
Group think is counter productive, no matter which area of the spectrum it comes from.