>  TR> You rarely (if ever) hear about a policeman murdered by black street
 >  TR> gang members. But let some black street thug bully an elderly store
 >  TR> keeper and rob them of a fistful of cheap cigars....and all hell breaks
 >  TR> loose in the media!

 > A young black man who buys some cigars and then is harrassed
 > by a non-black store owner is not a thief or a criminal.

 He didn't *buy* the cigars he *stole* them! He wasn't being `harassed' by
the lawful store clerk, he was `confronted' to pay for the cigars. 

Instead he intimidated the clerk (all of which was caught on the store's
security video system), shoved the clerk at least once, and exited the 
store without paying for the cigars.

Michael Brown wasn't very smart, even though he was (supposedly) about to
start college. Probably with a football scholarship...it certainly wasn't
for his math or physics skills!

He threw his life away for a handful of cheap cigars. 

Hopefully, he died before he could reproduce and pollute the gene pool further
than his parents already had!
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