I’d like to see the context.
I did a search of the quote before Aug 8, 2014 and -Brown. No results. If it was a poem it didn’t show up online until Brown put it on FB.
There is no doubt that Brown either thought he could survive a run on an armed police officer, or made a suicidal run on an armed police officer.
The kid ran away, changed his mind, and went back. I don’t know how drugs work. Would a drug turn him around to charge at an armed police officer?
It appears that Brown was involved with at least one if not two gangs. I wonder if those gang members were Black Panthers as well. From the outset the Black Panthers were set on using Brown’s death for violent purposes. And so were Brown’s friends, from one of the articles I linked to. They seemed to think that violence would honor Brown’s death - the total opposite of what his parents said.
I am NOT arguing with YOU.
I am just pointing out that your average 18 year old does not speak nor write with the ‘eloquence’ that is shown here.
Kids that age just don’t ‘talk’ like that. Hey VERY few adults talk like that.
Is this kid an aspiring ‘rap’ musician writer who was just trying to turn his life around (sarc) and some ‘Bully Cop’ had the nerve to ask him (well we probably realize the cop didn’t say - Excuse me sir, would you please get on the sidewalk) and very possibly the cop wasn’t aware that the kid may have just committed a robbery..BUT as has been stated MANY times, the KID knew he had just committed a robbery at the least, with ‘roughing’ up the clerk a very likely possibility.
I believe the police version of that because it could have been easily pushed in that direction if they had IMMEDIATELY released tape showing the ‘strong arm’ in the store, whether it was the kid or not .. At least the kid ‘fit the description’ etc...
Maybe the kid was ‘tired’ of being ‘picked on’ for his size and EVERYONE that came in contact with him ‘feared’ him - for his size - if nothing else.
Lets face it, KIDS (in general) do things to ‘annoy’ adults - that is the nature of the ‘game’ and has been going on since boys dipped girls pony tails in the ink well.
If he was ‘high’ on something, it would promote the super man feeling the kid may have had BUT at this stage of the game anything that is used to show he is/was NOT a ‘good kid, a gentle giant’ will just add to the fire.
In normal times, Holder saying DOJ would conduct their own autopsy wouldn’t be a ‘bad’ idea, but if the locals come out and the DOJ is just the opposite - TSWRHTF - which, is my what cynical self is gearing up for.
I am getting to the point where I really find it hard to believe EITHER side anymore and this is just further proof.
Even if we ‘ignore’ the constant shootings in Chicago, that shooting of the 3yo girl in Metro DC should have been the ‘poster child’ event to bring this trash to a head.
BUT, we can’t do that because the shooter wasn’t even a ‘White Hispanic’, he was a Black kid known to the neighborhood - the fact that the police haven’t caught him yet leads my cynical side to think maybe ‘justice has already been served’, in the sense of the kid would be or have been better off if the cops got to him first.