So Michael Brown got high, robbed a store, then attacked a police officer...

[spoonitnow]

Do you know what causes someone to think that they can get high, rob a store for something they want instead of paying for it, and attack a police officer unprovoked? It's entitlement and a lack of learning that there are consequences for your actions.

There are consequences to attacking a police officer unprovoked. Those consequences can include getting shot. If Michael Brown didn't want to get shot, then he shouldn't have attacked the police officer. It's pretty fucking simple.

I'm sorry that his family and friends are having to deal with all of this all because Michael Brown was a fuck-up, but the police got it right on this one.

I'm for equality, so Michael Brown being black and Officer Wilson being white means absolutely jack shit to me because I see them both as human beings. One big-ass human being attacked a not-so-big-ass human being who had a gun and used it within the confines of the law (even if he wasn't a cop) to protect himself. It's unfair to say that he isn't able to do that when someone is attacking him because it puts the burden on the victim.

[d0zer]

Spoon, you're always analyzing these situations as isolated incidences, without any historical context. You might as well be saying that World War I was caused by the assassination of Franz Ferdinand because some "entitled" Bosnian upstarts decided to get a little rowdy.

Rodney King wasn't JUST about Rodney King, nor were the Trayvon Martin protests, neither are the Ferguson protests just about one death. These protests are the result of powder-kegs ignited by these incidences and it seems like you can't see the forest for the trees.

[spoonitnow]

Spoon, you're always analyzing these situations as isolated incidences, without any historical context. You might as well be saying that World War I was caused by the assassination of Franz Ferdinand because some "entitled" Bosnian upstarts decided to get a little rowdy.

Rodney King wasn't JUST about Rodney King, nor were the Trayvon Martin protests, neither are the Ferguson protests just about one death. These protests are the result of powder-kegs ignited by these incidences and it seems like you can't see the forest for the trees.

People have rioted and looted in Ferguson supporting an adult man who committed a robbery before attacking a police officer unprovoked.

Moreover, if the man was white, nobody would be protesting, and it wouldn't gain national attention.

If they want to protest against the police state as it currently stands, then I'm all for that, but that's not why they're protesting.

[d0zer]

I still don't get it.

I see.