They’re trying to paint him as the “Big Mike” character from the Sandra Bullock movie “The Blind Side”.
The cigars are to be emptied of tobacco and filled with weed. That’s the thang they do with them.
“It should go without saying but vaguely intimidating photos of you do not give the police carte blanche to gun you down, and we no longer live in a country where it is OK to sentence black men to death for the crime of petty theft.”
*The cop did NOT shoot him down because of the “petty theft”. He was shot because he had already ASSAULTED a police officer, grabbed for the cops gun - enough for it to fire, ran from the scene, stopped, talked the cop down and then CHARGED at the cop as he approached.
A WHITE guy would have been shot in the same situation.
Or "Radio Raheem" from "Do the Right Thing."