position to provide a role model for these young black men.
Posted on 08/19/2014 11:42:49 AM PDT by bestintxas
Reading the profile of Michael Brown by Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the Los Angeles Times over the weekend, one paragraph stood out.
He was heavyset and quiet, but not shy. He recorded rap music with his best friend and smoked marijuana with other young men.
Hennessy-Fiske also points out that cigarillos, the kind that Brown allegedly stole from a convenience store, are “often used to smoke marijuana.” So, it should hardly come as a shock that Michael Brown had marijuana in his system when he was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. If anything, this shows that Brown was the quintessential American teenager. Also, let’s have some perspective here. Brown had sleep-and-munchie-inducing pot in his system not rage-fueling PCP.
But here’s what it is more enraging than it is shocking. We know about Brown’s toxicology report because a source with knowledge of St. Louis County’s investigation into the shooting slipped that information to The Post. This move reminds me of the time in 2012 when Florida law enforcement sources told the Orlando Sentinel that Trayvon Martin “had been suspended from school in Miami after being found with an empty marijuana baggie.” Throwing the pot at Trayvon was shameful and irrelevant to the fatal events that followed. The same is true with Brown.
Instead of leaking information whose sole purpose is to build the foundation for Wilson’s defense by smearing Brown, local law enforcement should release all the relevant reports. I’m talking about the autopsy conducted by St. Louis County and the toxicology reports for both Brown
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liberals defending their sewer - just like Ted Kennedy running off after crashing into the water and leaving a woman behind...and yet he continued to serve up until his death...
And these women reporters just praise him...uhm...I wonder how many women he raped and left soiled - where the women still thought it was their fault - not his?
these stories just prove how sick minded the left really is!
Well, since “teen” is now the media’s preferred euphemism for “drug and rage fueled black yoof gangsta wannabe”, I guess this dude is the quintessential.
robbery and other crimes are just part of being a teenager
nonsense
I feel your regrets over un-realized potential. My experiences were similar.
Instinctively using your size to take what you want... typical?
Hardly
I should have started my previous post off with:
“I have three teenagers. They make alot of noise, suck up way too much electricity, get mouthy sometimes, and sometimes they are too big for their britches. But its nothing that a swift kick to the butt followed by a hug won’t cure.”
Thats normal teenageers. Not gangster, pots smoking, strongarm robbers.
Brown was not a teenager...
he was a man...
Years ago those from 13 thorough 19 were called “teenagers” because a person was legally an adult at age 21...to vote, drink make contracts etc
for many years 18 has been the age for adulthood..
This perp was an adult...
they are calling him a “child” and a “teenager” for political effect...
“””That or the knockout game”””
Come on... knockout game, shooting white jogger, shooting a baby in the face, beating a ‘cracka’ for being in the wrong hood... typical “teen” stuff.
Actually, if you follow what the media calls ‘teen’, then yes it fits perfectly.
Every time something like that happens, its ‘teens’ that do it.
whew....glad to see there’s no bias on Capehert’s part.
A regular Andy Hardy or Henry Aldrich.
Michael Brown, America’s real life SHREK.
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