[quote=Thundercat]
All the tiny details of the situation really don't matter. At all. The law is being broken in both courts. I imagine there are absolutely hood rats taking advantage of the situation but that's due to the fact these peaceful protests, which were at one point peaceful, and at one point protests, have practically escalated into a riot. They are quick to turn this into a racial issue because it is. Mike Brown is innocent. He is absolutely innocent and the proof is almost ridiculous. But that doesn't matter. What matters is the fact that we've gotten to a point where cops are patrolling a city like some kind of private militia, tear gassing JOURNALISTS for christ's sakes and completely ignoring the constitution and foundation of laws, rules and beliefs this country was founded upon. These are not people looking to serve justice. And what's even worse is there will be no justice. Nobody is going to punish these cops for abusing their power. These cops want a reason to pull their triggers. What's even worse is if our founding fathers were hypothetically brought back to life and shown the situation before them they'd be shitting themselves at the sight of so many African American's. This doesn't feel like a country man. It's disgusting. When shit get's real anybody that can do anything will do nothing because it'll merely put a target on their back. It's disgusting.Politicians are irrelevant.
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As far as the police abusing their power, I'm sure they are to some extent. People with power have this uncanny habit of abusing it when given the chance after all. 

What I want to point out though, are the assumptions everyone makes because they like to take the side of the "victim". First of all, there is no proof whatsoever that completely supports the innocence of Michael Brown, other than opinions, nor is prere evidence that say the cop was in his right. Secondly, this is only a racial issue because people want to make it a racial issue. Everyone just assumes that this cop shot the kid because he was black. Why does race even apply in this situation at all? The story should be " cop shoots teen", not, "cop shoots black teen." Who cares what the color of his skin is? 

The fact is, this kid ran back at the cop and he felt threatened so he shot. Was he right to shoot? Who knows? Everyone keeps saying that Michael is such a good kid, when in actuality, he has multiple charges of assault and robbery. I can't bring myself to take a side. There's just too much that we don't know. 

Also, the "peaceful protesting" never started as such. To begin with, it was a ceremony for Michael's death held by the family. Then later that evening they burned down a QT and it escalated from there. The actual protesting started when police came to try and calm things down, seeing as people were looting and throwing bricks off of a highway overpass.