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11 things you should know about the Michael Brown shooting
Vox.com ^ | August 23, 2014 | German Lopez

Posted on 08/24/2014 10:43:56 AM PDT by EveningStar

  1. Who was Michael Brown?
  2. Why was Michael Brown shot?
  3. Who is Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown?
  4. Was the shooting of Michael Brown legal?
  5. Is the Michael Brown shooting being investigated?
  6. What's happening in Ferguson, Missouri?
  7. Is the black community represented in Ferguson's government?
  8. Have the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, been peaceful?
  9. How have police handled the protests in Ferguson, Missouri?
  10. Why do police have military-grade equipment in the first place?
  11. How have government officials reacted to the protests in Ferguson, Missouri?

(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: dailykos; darrenwilson; ezraklein; ferguson; fergusonshooting; germanlopez; markosmoulitsas; michaelbrown; missouri; vox

1 posted on 08/24/2014 10:43:56 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I thought Vox was just an internet joke.


2 posted on 08/24/2014 10:48:54 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: EveningStar

12. The news is ignoring our open borders with ISIS pouring in.
13. The news is ignoring Benghazi.
14. The news is ignoring IRS scandal.
15. The news is ignoring 29 deaths by shooting in Chicago last weekend.
16. fill in the blanks
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3 posted on 08/24/2014 10:50:06 AM PDT by usual suspect
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To: cripplecreek

You didn’t think wrong. (Ezra Klein.)


4 posted on 08/24/2014 10:53:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I know “Voxplaining” is a twitter joke with comments like “Why penis registration will prevent rape and why lesbians should care”.


5 posted on 08/24/2014 10:56:55 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: EveningStar

12. Why when a white cop shoots a black guy it’s immediately branded as racist before all the facts are in?

13. Because our first foreign born twice unconstitutionally elected radical Islamic President needs attention diverted from the IRS, Benghazi, the border, Obamacare.


6 posted on 08/24/2014 11:07:02 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: EveningStar

1. Who was Michael Brown?

2. What was Michael Brown?

3. Why was Michael Brown?

Cause he be black!


7 posted on 08/24/2014 11:08:30 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: EveningStar

if anyone has doubts about the media promoting racial turmoil need only look at the front page of the Virginian Pilot today. With a large sketch of a black man tied to a stake and a white man with a cat of nine tails whipping him - a recaptured slave. Obviously the sketch and article about treatment and punishment of slaves published today so as to bring not harmony among races, but division and conflict. This the worst of the worst - sickening.

I hope the people of Norfolk will rise up en masse against the Virginian Pilot. They have done great harm to race relations in the Tidewater area of Virginia and nearby North Carolina. Shame of the publishers of that newspaper.


8 posted on 08/24/2014 11:19:45 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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9 posted on 08/24/2014 11:28:34 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: usual suspect

The news is ignoring the black man shot by white cop in St. Louis ...


10 posted on 08/24/2014 11:30:12 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: EveningStar
7.7.Is the black community represented in Ferguson's government?

7 A. How involved is the black community in the voting process which determines local government?

11 posted on 08/24/2014 11:41:39 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: EveningStar

That’s stating the obvious. Some investigative journalism there I tell you!


12 posted on 08/24/2014 11:59:02 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: EveningStar

Interesting how a site named for the Latin word “voice” does not allow comments.


13 posted on 08/24/2014 12:02:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: usual suspect

when do we get our Marine back for Mexico?


14 posted on 08/24/2014 12:17:13 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: EveningStar

Unseal his arrest record....gentle giant my ...


15 posted on 08/24/2014 12:21:49 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: EveningStar

“Ferguson Police say Brown stole some cigars in a convenience store robbery prior to the shooting.”

In the words of the immortal philosopher, Chico Marx:

“Who you going to believe, me or your lying eyes.”


16 posted on 08/24/2014 12:26:00 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: I cannot think of a name

And saying he stole them implies he was seen while shoplifting, when in truth he strong-armed the store clerk while stealing them, which made the act a felony robbery.


17 posted on 08/24/2014 12:28:44 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Given the statistics of black males committing crime in black neighborhoods, I’d reckon the world is better off without the stinker. Next


18 posted on 08/24/2014 12:52:00 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: EveningStar

I barely started reading before three UNARMEDs became too much. “Thug” could begin every answer.


19 posted on 08/24/2014 1:03:41 PM PDT by bgill
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