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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Well, you know, in America we're supposed to believe all people are equal, which means a teenage boy's life is worth every bit as much as a 40-year-old journalist's.
The "robbery" is alleged as the video, if you watch all of it, appears to show him paying for his cigarillos, and the scuffle appears to be an argument over the price. At the absolute worst, it's shoplifting, not a "strong arm robbery" (nice work on parroting Fox News exactly; you make it clear where you get your news from). The store owner never reported a robbery; it was called in by a customer who witnessed the scuffle. The store owner was a bit befuddled when the cops showed up demanding the video, which they didn't demand until after Michael Brown had been shot dead in the street for jaywalking. But carry on with your character assassination of a young black man. You're in fine company; the NYTimes did quite a dance yesterday, trying to make the average teenager into a thug and the cop who killed him (who grew up in a criminal household and started his career on a police force so corrupt the city disbanded it and had the county take over) into a victim. It was astounding.
Good grief, if arguing with a bodega owner was a death penalty offense, half the people in NYC would be dead.
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Wow. I didn't realize you witnessed the entire ordeal unfold - including being in two places at once, right before your eyes. You should have said something sooner, they've been looking for you!
The truth is, still, no one really knows what happened. and never will. But following your logic, clearly the cop bashed himself in the face to make the adult black man look bad.
It's amazing how you can continue to accept your emotions as fact. And only assume one side of the story is correct because that is what you want to believe.
You're sounding more and more like our dearly departed veterinarian.