I honestly thought the century-old African Brute stereotype was done, but man it's retro out there today. Spoiler thanks Obama.
When a very large man robs a store using intimidation and physical force, it is quite appropriate to label that person a brute. That's not stereotypical at all when applied to a single person overlaid against a very recent robbery and aggressive actions towards a policeman. Sad to say, but Michael Brown was a very legitimate danger to the community. There is no disputing that.
And honestly, no intelligent person is trying to dispute that. A 6'4 290 pound strong-arm thief isn't just any ordinary person no matter what race they are.
FV Santiago - this is a rare bit of subtlety by your standards. Any reason why breaking character? According to most, Brown wasn't *merely* a mad brute, but "demonic" and possessed by a spirit of the underworld (Papa Shango or Kamala maybe? The Hulk Hogan comparison really ... pales don't you know?), in the grip of a reefer madness-fueled blood rage. Get your ass back up over the top where it belongs, slack-0
Oh boy, the timing of this could not have been worse for the DA's office. Sure hope the victim isn't white. Racial tensions are bad enough already.
did he deserve death for it? A nation of laws that places its' enforcement agents in a position where they are killing 6'4 290 pound men, or 12 year old boys is straining its' moral vision.
Did he deserve death for the robbery? No. Did he deserve death for attacking a cop and trying to take his gun? Yes.
Who "deserves" death? He earned it by attacking a police officer and trying to take his firearm. That will almost always get you killed.
Really---for a nation of laws, death sentences without juries or judges seem to happen astonishingly often.
In my opinion? Nobody. Especially nobody who has not been through the judicial process. And no, bringing loaded guns, and loaded attitudes to any situation is not a judicial process. While we've all been bickering over Brown, a 12 year old was killed in Cleveland by police for taking out a toy gun. Just another day. A rampant gun culture, a quick trigger to violence, and an attitude that some people deserve due process and others don't have added up to a toxic mix that has seen American jails fill with more people than Soviet gulags---people who are disproportionally minorities.
Yes really. When you attack someone with a gun, you are essentially begging them to kill you. Now, maybe out of the kindness of their heart would someone choose to take the beat down and be at the mercy of their attacker, but most wouldn't.
and/or tasers/non-lethal ways to bring down unarmed suspects. People are clamouring for due process. Unleashing jittery cops with guns, and excusing them for shooting unarmed people is not exactly the way to pursue that route.
I don't get why people waste energy tying themselves in moral knots defending thug brutes like Michael Brown and the Ferguson looters. They are despicable people not worth defending. The looters need to be beaten soundly. Darren Wilson is a guy worth defending, just doing his job trying to provide for his family when some worthless piece of humanity tries to kill him. Then the leftist media mob ruins his life.
Well then perhaps Mr. Brown should have afforded the officer the opportunity to bring the judicial process to bear instead of attacking him and trying to take his firearm. This is why I seldom venture in here anymore. It is becoming increasingly impossible to have a reasoned debate with the liberals here. Dumb. Just dumb.
The onus on proper law enforcement and due process is on the officer of law. This is why America has Miranda rights enumerated, a process won through the Supreme Court. If you don't accept that, that's fine---but if you're uncomfortable with the notion that the most extreme interpretation of a "nation of men, not laws" comes attached with the armed police officer walking his or her beat, then you may just be reduced to a puddle of insults. What are your experiences with police officers? Do they jibe with the gulag-like number of prisoners America holds?
Because America is broken when it accepts that the use of excessive force is a norm---a grievance that has consequences not only here but across the nation, most notably with said 12 year old boy from Cleveland. (of course watch the "leftist media mob" pin mar1juana on him :/)
That I agree with, they should develop more advanced non lethal weapons, would be nice if they could have the stun gun from Star Trek. However, attacking a police officer is just asking for it, not sure why so many people are defending this young man.
So are people still defending the mobs and comparing them to our heroic founding fathers? Or has the topic moved on by now.
