After a school shooting, how often did we hear, “he was a good boy, never in trouble,” or “he would always wave to me as I passed, really a friendly guy.”
Remember the description of the Boston bomber Tsarnaev brothers as “regular guys?” A teacher who lived on the same street said, I knew him (Dzhokhar) as nothing but sociable, compassionate, friendly, athletic, just a friendly kid.”
Fast forward to this past week in Ferguson, MO and the killing of 18-year old Michael Brown. “My son just turned 18 and graduated from high school and he didn’t bother nobody,” his mother, Leslie McSpadden told CNN.
He wasn’t armed, yet he lay dead in the street after an altercation with a police officer, who was armed. Call me cynic, but when I heard Brown was 6’ 4 “ and 290 pounds and that he allegedly pushed the officer into his vehicle and tried to get the officer’s gun, I wasn’t buying “he didn’t bother nobody.” Continue reading →