Not very harmful - so it's really not that bad to rob stores and threaten officers' lives in hindset? Um, no. Look, I'm getting to the crime itself and the mentality for it. It is a brazen, uncivilized action that a normal, law abiding person would not do compounded with a secondary illegal actions. To just whitewash that away and say everyone slips up now and again is nonsense. How many people commit multiple major felony "slip ups?" To give them a pass is ludicrous at best. The proper thing in a civilized society is to say that, yes, flagrant violations of law are just that, regardless of intent or meaning behind them in the perpetrator's mind, the actions are still committed with malice of forethought. To say anything less is giving this generation and future generations the right to say that major crimes are just minor inconveniences that can be corrected and overlooked in time. That is the complete opposite of US history, law enforcement, jurisprudence, and responsible citizenship. Crimes should be punished, criminals should be called what they are, and attempted cop-killers will, 9/10 times, be shot down before they can pull out their sidearm or steal it from police. These are facts and his family and friends are memorializing a felony thief.
Lovely sermon. For you to honestly sit and whine that his family and community should not be allowed to mourn the death of this kid simply because he stole some cigars from a gas station and made a poor, heat-of-the-moment decision in a situation where facts have been distorted and neither you nor I can profess as to what
exactly occurred is absolutely inane. You sound like a moron, and it's unfortunate that someone would honestly devote this much effort into trying to shame the people of Ferguson and the family and friends of Mike Brown on an internet forum for mourning the loss of a loved one. It's pitiful.
