Well even with the National guard there, people are still acting a funk.
During the day people come out and clean up the streets, at night, the thugs roll out and taunt police and military.
So far only 80 national guard has shown up, I suspect more will have to come and they just start arresting them all and putting them behind bars,
Originally posted by Lestov16
So Brown didn't rob that store and it really was a desperate smear campaign. Phucking white devils....
That's not what your link implies. It's saying that the store owner didn't call the police over the theft and bullying, someone else called the police.
The theft and bullying still happened; it's 100% unclear if that was Brown; it does appear so though. That theft still had nothing to do with Brown being approached.
Been trying my hardest to stay out of this convo because my family and friends on Facebook have been going insane and I'm tired of the whole thing, but:
Apparently Mike and his friend attempted to buy a box of cigars (the box you see his friend put on the counter) and did not have enough money for the box, so Mike decides since he's given the clerk the money for the box to grab a handful of the cheaper brand singles that the money he gave the clerk would cover and in doing so the box spills on the floor. It was an unnecessary dick move on Mike's part (he didn't need to get angry at not having enough cash for his purchase and then aggressively take the singles from the box, he could/should have just said "Fine, I'll just take the singles"😉. Anyway, he grabs a few of the singles from the floor and walks away. The Clerk comes around to ensure he didn't take more than he had paid for, Mike shoves Clerk for 'coming at him', and leaves. While this exchange occurs someone else present in the store assumes it's a robbery and calls 911.
Mike and his friend, however, were stopped for walking in the middle of the street, not a robbery pursuit, so this incident, while showing Mike made a dick move, had no connection to the shooting. It does, however, show that he was prone to unnecessary aggression. He didn't need to spill the cigars and disrespect the Clerk because he didn't have enough money for what he wanted.
Originally posted by MF DELPHThis whole thing is a mess.
Been trying my hardest to stay out of this convo because my family and friends on Facebook have been going insane and I'm tired of the whole thing, but:Apparently Mike and his friend attempted to buy a box of cigars (the box you see his friend put on the counter) and did not have enough money for the box, so Mike decides since he's given the clerk the money for the box to grab a handful of the cheaper brand singles that the money he gave the clerk would cover and in doing so the box spills on the floor. It was an unnecessary dick move on Mike's part (he didn't need to get angry at not having enough cash for his purchase and then aggressively take the singles from the box, he could/should have just said "Fine, I'll just take the singles"😉. Anyway, he grabs a few of the singles from the floor and walks away. The Clerk comes around to ensure he didn't take more than he had paid for, Mike shoves Clerk for 'coming at him', and leaves. While this exchange occurs someone else present in the store assumes it's a robbery and calls 911.
Mike and his friend, however, were stopped for walking in the middle of the street, not a robbery pursuit, so this incident, while showing Mike made a dick move, had no connection to the shooting. It does, however, show that he was prone to unnecessary aggression. He didn't need to spill the cigars and disrespect the Clerk because he didn't have enough money for what he wanted.
Smh at the police for making it look like he was a thief...
Originally posted by MF DELPH
YouTube video
What's the timestamp?
No idea. I don't have access to the original clip, this is video which was linked/posted in an article I read on Facebook today regarding the comments from the Owner of the Store and the AG (Holder) and DOJ asking the FPD not to release the stills/clips they'd subpoenaed, which they did anyway last week. If you notice his clothing is identical to what he's wearing in the photo's of his corpse laying in the streets of Ferguson, minus his hat.
It's possible Mike Brown and his friend regularly wore the same clothing and always aggressively purchased cigars at the same store like the day of the incident, so this could be video from any point in time and not the same video the Police are using from different camera angles.
Originally posted by OnenessDoes it give you super human strength or something? 😮
I know from experience.
Anyways, it seem the cops shot a black guy dead again, it happened 4 miles away from the place Michael died. The new person is a 23 yr old, who was trying to rob a store with a knife and was confronted by cops. You know the rest, he tried to lunge and he got shot dead. His death might spark another riot and looting.
http://news.yahoo.com/city-edge-st-louis-police-shoot-kill-another-191548306.html
^Agreed.
The issue is that modern news media is marketed as entertainment rather than informational and as such they need to fuel viewership. Controversy does that. You'd think that police brutality on it's own 'merits' would be enough to drive public interest, but just two days before the death of Mike Brown a white man was in fact gunned down by Police in Dallas and it didn't hit the National media circulation at all. The increase in use of lethal force by Police effects all citizens, not just Black People. However, my people are a lot more demonstrative and boisterous when it comes to the airing of social grievances towards us, and have a history of victimization in this nation, so when a story, even if only on a minute, superficial level, harkens back to the Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, or Slavery, the news and Poverty Pimps (Sharpton, Jackson, etc) see providence. The real issue here is lethal force being a tool of first resort far too often by Police, the overall ramping up of aggression by Police when dealing with the citizenry since 9/11, and frankly, the poor social state and perception that a certain segment of my demographic perpetuates and causes all of us to be viewed through. There's plenty of housekeeping necessary on all fronts, but apparently cooler, more logical heads won't prevail until there's more blood in the streets.