I think the point is the police have no right to shoot an unarmed man AFTER he is on his knees with his hands up in surrender. If that was the case then the cop is guilty of 2nd degree murder at least.
Got no issues with this, at all. IF (IF) this is what happened, that cop needs to rot in a jail cell.
HOWEVER...I'm sick and ******* tired of this made up bullshit hysteria the media puts on us about "innocent black man" hurt by "racist whitey" before facts are in (and not a peep about white man killed by white cops in Albuquerque or the black on black slaughters that go on every weekend in Chicago).
We now know that "honor roll" student was a convenience store-robbing thug. We know minutes before his death, he roughed someone up over Swisher Sweets.
Yet we were told (and hundreds of millions may have believed) that a cop jumped out of his car and without provocation shot and killed this "upstanding young man."
What pisses me off is the media and Al Sharpton and the rest are responsible for the unrest in Missouri. They stoked the flames by telling a "story" (because that is what it was) about an innocent, never-hurt-nobody, on-his-way-home from church, upstanding African American man being gunned down cruelly by black-hating Whitey cop. Riots ensued. The cost unmeasurable at this point. When the real life fact is that this guy was a common thug, his behavior represented by his pictures that I posted before. He was willing to rob for cheap cigars and hurt and maim on the way. And we're supposed to believe that a cop in a car with a perfect record, with the door closed, reached out and assaulted this innocent young boy??
If Brown ran and he was shot after, then 2nd degree murder it should be. But to this point, just about every witness account has had massive amounts of suspicion cast on it. The guy proved himself to be a strong-arm thug. And the media once again proved it is a biased, propaganda arm easily swayed. And I won't doubt for once second if the story becomes "Michael Brown attacked the officer" and it was a self defense shooting.
Let's let the facts come in before more cries of "innocent man gunned down by white cop" ensue.