> Hello Tim,

 >  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
 >  TR>>> breaks 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.

 >  TR> He didn't *buy* the cigars he *stole* them!

 > The store clerk admitted the man had bought the cigars.
 
No, he did not!
 
 >  TR> He wasn't being `harassed' by the lawful store clerk, he was
 >  TR> `confronted' 
 > to
 >  TR> pay for the cigars.
 
 > The man pushed the clerk out of the way as he was exiting
 > the door.  The clerk never would have been pushed out of the
 > way had he been behind the counter like a normal person.
 
He was confronting a thief.
 
 >  TR> Instead he intimidated the clerk (all of which was caught on the
 >  TR> store's security video system), shoved the clerk at least once, and
 >  TR> exited the store without paying for the cigars.
  
 > You only saw one angle that had been edited for FoxNews, and the
 > store clerk later admitted the man had in fact paid for the cigars.
 
I saw what he did at the door; he shoved the clerk at least once. It's right
on the security video.
 
 >  TR> Michael Brown wasn't very smart,
  
 > The man's intelligence, or lack of it, is not the issue.
 
It certainly is. He wasn't bright enough to make his 21st birthday.
 
 >  TR> He threw his life away for a handful of cheap cigars.
  
 > Well, not everybody has the same taste in cigars.
 
Or values them as high as he did, either.
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