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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Genuine question: how? None of that matters one bit to him being murdered by the police. This type of character assassination of the victim is very typical especially when a black man is murdered. Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, I can clearly recall the attempts to drag their past actions through the mud as if it means their murders were justified.
Unrelated history is trotted out like somehow it means it was deserved. Nothing in his past means he deserved to be murdered by the police. Nothing he did in his past means it was right that he was murdered by the police. Nothing he said meant he should be murdered by the police. Nothing means he deserved to be murdered by the police.
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Michael Brown's "history" wasn't really unrelated history. He assaulted and robbed a person in broad daylight right before being shot. This wasn't a case of someone finding out he got a speeding ticket a decade prior, it was a violent criminal being apprehended by the police and potentially/probably escalating the situation.
Lumping him in with Eric Garner (and now Mr. Floyd), who was not at all a threat and was just selling some smokes, just muddys the water in my opinion.