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To: epicure who wrote (259467)	8/30/2014 12:54:36 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541789

I gather we differ on this point. Brown was clearly unarmed; we rarely, if ever, hear stories of unarmed white males being shot in similar circumstances; all reports of eye witnesses have Brown with his hands in the air at some point in the encounter; etc. The job of police training is to get them beyond the "there's a tall black kid and I need to worry" to a professional look at how to control a situation without shooting someone. Everything the police did after the fact contributes to misunderstandings--leaving his body on the street for 4 or 5 hours!!, no public release of an incident report, conflicting stories, you name it. I don't see any moment in this narrative that contributes to a defining frame of "thugism" or "black culture". Only severe police misconduct. Which raises questions as to how to handle it. "Thugism" in the black community and "black culture" may well be topics for conversation. But have nothing to do with the Ferguson event. And definitely should not be the defining framework.