It gets very tiring hearing hyperbole and bias from any and all sides. The few even-keeled views I've seen have been nice to see and help me from going crazy myself (I work in south St. Louis, so everyone is on about it).
Brown stealing cigarillos isn't right, but irrelevant to the shooting. Brown, by what I've heard, probably assaulted a police office in his car. If he had been shot in a scuffle inside a police car, I could call it justified. Shooting an unarmed person who is 30 ft away and no longer being aggressive...I can't see how to justify that.
The sad part is this will (and already has been) leveraged for political agendas on all sides. In the end, a young man is dead, a community is in upheaval and the event will get tossed onto the pile of things people use to justify whatever beliefs they have, regardless of what those beliefs may be. Tragic.
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