It was textbook self-defense regardless of what people thought.
If they want to revel in their ignorance, they should suffer the consequences.
Mike Brown wanted to live the Thug Life--stealing, acting as if he owned the world, attacking the police, etc. Everything about him that day screamed prison or the morgue. He choose the morgue and that's on him.
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I said it about Trayvon Martin when he met his early, yet predictable, demise.
He wanted a thug's life. He got a thug's death.
The losses of these knuckleheads are not the "tradgedies" that the talking heads keep saying they are. They were not standing peaceably on a street corner contemplating a cure for cancer with Nobel laureates when a tree suddenly fell on their heads. Their dispatch to the great beyond was the predictable and inevitable result of their own bad behavior.