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I heard his teacher speak yesterday. Mike was in “alternative school”. That means he wasn't making it in regular school for some reason. The teacher said Mike was a year behind in his work. It's possible he is dull normal in IQ or has learning disabilities to be in alternative school. I would say his likelihood of succeeding in college is low. I really doubt he was going to college.

The teacher also said Mike brought a can of tea with him every day. Do you remember in Florida the black kid bought Skittles and canned tea? They put coughing syrup in that mixture to get high. I don't think the preferred drink for a teen ager is canned tea unless he/she plans to add to that tea to make “Drank”, which is what they call this mixture. Mike brought canned tea with him every day to school.....

“Alternative School,” at least in Texas, is not for stupid kids it is for behavioral problems and it usally takes violence or destruction of school property to get put there. I wonder how the Gentile Giant ended up there.

I think that there should have been a dusk to dawn curfew after the first night of riots. What you have in Ferguson is a few citizens from there and agitators from other places giving the whole dang community a bad name and harming the entire community.

I think it's good to remember that the majority of the people who live there are not participating in this ignorant behavior. All the whoop di doo about this young man's death, while dozens are killed in Chicago etc.

Reminds me of the 60s all over again. We know who was behind that agitation - groups hoping to start a race war - communists and their sympathizers including the Black Panthers.

I have no doubt that there is a heck of a lot more info to come, and I detest the way the media jumps in and tries to prejudice the facts with their speculation and emotional reporting.

I am still waiting for a random act of objective journalism. Haven't seen it yet, but I am not watching much of the coverage. Just checking in on FR to keep up to date.