D-mn, I hope not!
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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“Brown had sleep-and-munchie-inducing pot in his system not rage-fueling PCP.”
That is still unknown. It takes weeks for a full toxicology report to come back, but a test for pot is almost instant now.
Sorry, the average teenager Doesn’t do it. Maybe many have tried, but that’s about it.
What a load of crap!
It is the old story from the left....oh he is just an average teen. WRONG WROGN WRONG. This punk had gang affiliations. He was a strong armed thug and robber. He was a bully and he broke a police officer’s eye socket and then tried to get his gun. When told to freeze he decided to bull rush the officer.
The people I know have NEVER had this type of encounter with a police officer..... even during the protests of the 60s
Also goes to character.
If his defenders want to claim he was a choirboy, then the cop’s defenders have the same right to provide evidence to the contrary.
Arguably, MJ possession and/or use should not be a felony. However, at present it is, in Missouri. Its presence in his system indicates he had committed at least one felony in the not too recent past.
The Jolly Teen Giant...Ho Ho Ho.
Yep... I finished school, 5th in high school class of 485, ALWAYS held jobs, active in sports and volunteering. That was my teenage experience, same for all of my friends, my kids, their friends, etc., etc.
R.A.Heinlein had “Be wary of strong drink, it makes you shoot at tax collectors ... and miss!” (Notebooks of Lazarus Long 1973). The modern version needs to include all intoxicants, drunk or smoked. MJ devotees say it is less harmful than alcohol so it should be legal, I say if we have effectively banned tobacco, why legalize different burning leaves?
It sounds like the author finds it necessary to stereotype all young people and blacks.
Knoteye.
FWIW, I spent the late 60s in Japan, where "grass" was a one-way ticket out of the country, never touched the stuff then or since. 30yo son never did it at home, may or may not have tried it in college but certainly doesn't do it now. 18yo daughter has never done it, and she is the quintessentially high-quality American teenager.
Because the government has no business banning substances, at least those that are not egregiously and obviously harmful.
No and we don’t allow our kids to drink underage. Any other stupid questions
I’ve heard reports it was synthetic THC or “bath salts”. If true, the reaction to that can be quite different than pot. Has anyone else seen this reported? I saw it just once and now I can’t find the reference.
CC
The beatification of Michael Brown from brutal doped up thug to happy-go-lucky All American Boy continues unabated and undeterred by fact.
Actually, he was a year and a half from graduating high school and was going to a trade school for heating, cooling/HVAC. NOT college.
CC
Keep them on the straight and narrow my parents did. I thank them for it all the time. I know off subject, but not really! God Bless Good Parenting!!
I thought that Martin was suspended for having stolen jewelry and burglary tools. School officials downplayed this to make crime statistics look better.
-PJ
D-mn, I hope not!
More of the Gentle Giant meme.
Apparently so if the quintessential teenager is black. That or the knockout game or shooting a white jogger because you feel like it.
So, if Brown was the quintessential American teenager, then what does that make of his buddy Dorian Johnson? Was Dorian then a non-quintessential American teenager, as he was with Brown, but did not strong-arm the store clerk, and he did not rush the police, did not slam the cruiser, did not have any altercation with Wilson.
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