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Damn, I knew I should not have clicked on "Notices" :)

@The Teen Idol :) Adon, marijuana in fact was found in the autopsy blood work and no I did not mean that sent him into a rage and attack the cop BUT it MIGHT have had a little to do with his frame of mind.
Michael Brown was not your average man. I remember reading an interview of one of his family members who said Michael was a very large man who did not get into many fights because he used his size to INTIMIDATE. He also had just robbed a neighborhood store of cigars, shoved a man back into a rack of chips and when the man tried to follow him outside he turned and walked toward that man backing him up into the store then turned and walked out. PLEASE, don't try and call him a "gentle giant". He was a very large, angry black teenager who had the balls to push a cop back into his car, reach in and punch that cop twice in the face, try to grab the cops gun, there was DNA on the gun, then walk away and when the cop got out of the car Michael Brown turned and came at the cop. That is the testimony of at least a few of the BLACK witnesses.
Defend the killing of Eric Garner? No, but I also will not indict the cop for trying to do his job. I guess we are looking at this from two different perspectives. All Garner had to do was admit he got caught breaking the law AGAIN or you can try to change that law so the cops are not asked by store owners to protect the people who pay them to do a job.

@Ratty, Yes, Wilson had a gun BUT when a 250lb ANGRY teenager is charging you as several of the black witnesses stated, I do believe Wilson could have wondered if his bullets would stop Brown. I don't know and neither does anyone else but I think the first few shots from Wilson are the ones that hit him in the arm. The wound in the hand happened in the car. The one that DID begin to bring him down was the hit to the upper right side of his chest. I THINK as Wilson was firing and the bullet wound to the chest made Brown begin to fall to the ground, THAT is when the head wound happened, when he was falling forward. It would have been nice if Wilson had stopped shooting for a second, Brown might still be alive but I GUESS Wilson did not stop shooting because Brown was so close.
All the evidence I've seen says Brown was about 35' from Wilson when he went down. I did see an artcle recently that said he was 100' from Wilson but I have no idea where they came up with that.

I also believe some cops DO use excessive force. I've seen at least 3 times recently I felt the cop belongs in jail for what he did but in the case of Brown/Wilson, I don't feel that way. As for Garner.....I wish that had not happened, but I will not condemn a cop for doing his job. OH, by the way...did anyone notice a BLACK female cop at that scene who was a sgt. and supervisor who DID NOT STOP THE OTHERS. Maybe she knew the others were doing their jobs. As a Sgt. and probably one who gave testimony to the grand jury...do you think she lied to protect a white cop??

@Max: Why was it necessary--why was it imperative--for them to physically attack him at all?
They were doing the job they were called to do.
Why did Garner have to die?? HE DID NOT HAVE TO DIE !!!
He simply, knowing he had a heart condition, asthma and was caught again...all he had to do, was cooperate with the cops and when he refused, he should not have tried to fight them.
I guess we will never agree on this.

As to your reference of my racism, that is the term being used my the black people being interviewed and by the black news anchors.
What other term would you like me to use.
Maybe before you talk about my racism you should look at how many time you refer to cops as pigs.

OK, time to go watch some news and get a little more upset :( :)

OH Corfaisus, you silly Texan :)
First, it was only some pot..not serious or a lot of drugs. He had smoked some pot and that may have OR MAY NOT have had anything to do with what happened, I'm not sure but I DO know pot changes your state of mind.
Second: he was 6'2-4", a very healthy 18yr old AND about 350lbs. The initial 3-4 bullets were along his hand, arm and upper right side of chest, and with the adrenilen and anger rushing through his body, he very easily could have rushed the cop AND a cop with an angry large, heavy man rushing him SHOULD have been afraid for his life.

@Ratty: Concerning Eric Garner, ALMOST nothing about his status in life gives him the right to take away the livelihood of the local store owners. As stated, he had been arrested OVER 30 times and when the cops ARE CALLED IN, not stopping him for hell of it, he should have complied. It looked to me on the video like one of them was writing out a summons (not positive) and he told them to leave him alone, they had harassed him enough and "it was going to stop today". That is when they arrested him, he resisted and the cop used a take down hold, NOT choke hold. If you watch the video again, you will see a cop shorter than Mr. Garner put his forearm under his chin and try to pull him back....that is the takedown method he was trained to use. Unfortunately, as the cops wrestled with Garner, the cops are slipped under his chin to his throat, that may be why everyone says "choke hold". Garner was extremely heavy, had asthma and a heart condition. If the EMT's thought he was having trouble breathing, they would have put him oxygen right away. It took six men to get Garner on the stretcher.
As for me, I grew up in the East New York section of Brookly, NY. Poor, on welfare, father in prison. Sister had a job but mother did not. So yes, I know what it was like to grow up poor and feeling like the world was against me. BUT I WAS TAUGHT TO RESPRECT THE COPS AND DO WHAT THEY TOLD ME TO DO. As a teenager I was once picked up by the cops, they took me home to my mother and I got hell for getting into trouble :)

@Ratty again:) My knowledge of the Michael Brown case is the same as Eric Garner.
CNN,MSNBC,FOX NEWS. Their TV shows and their websites. PLUS: God only knows how many internet articles TV stations, AP and Routers. As for the witnesses, several of the witnesses who corroborated the cops story are black. Several of those who said the cop "gunned down" the gentle giant are black and when pressed, they changed their testimony.
I have seen a few stories of cops who really DID abuse their authority and did commit crimes and when I saw those I was really pissed and wanted them in jail so the prisoners could take care of the situation.

OK, gotta play a game and get this crap off my mind so I can prepare to watch some more rioting :(
Have a good night everyone :)

PS
@pianotm: that cop who shot the 12yr old boy in the park, he had been released from his last job because he was not mentally qualified to do cop duty:)
I do believe the parents are partially at fault for buying toys that look like the real thing and also the toy company for making the orange tip removable.
There are cops who are not mentally able to take the stress of that kind of work and we need to be able to find more of them or possibly train them to be able to handle it....

AH but pianotm, the link weren't no link on my computer :)
so am i forgiven :(

@pianotm....is your Unicorn on the right thread ??? :)

author=Little Wing Guy
Does anyone else have such difficulty throwing out old clothes? I do this thing where every time I buy a new piece of clothing, I must throw out something that I no longer/hardly wear BUT IT'S SO HARD.

Find a friend or relative who has recently lost or gained some weight.
Then throw out THEIR clothes :)

I've recently lost about 100lbs so I'm getting ready to take a bunch of stuff to the GoodWill bin :)