I just drove through the city and it isn’t as bad as it looked on TV

Michael Brown was murdered 6 years ago.

To this day it's still a justified use of force... When a movement clings onto a subject that yanks a shop-owner over a counter to steal a box of cigarillos, who then proceeded to try to reach into a cruiser of a cop that's confronting him to take his firearm (gets shot in the hand) and still chooses to charge that officer when they're separated isn't a case of an innocent individual getting killed because of unfair policing policies. The ballistics have spoken on this case where the two groups of witnesses contradict each other. The after effects of economical impact on Ferguson shows what burning your own house down to spite your neighbor really does.

We've literally seen an incident in the past 2 years here where an unarmed individual was able to turn a police officers own gun against him by knocking him out, disarming him, and discharging it at him.

Profiling, unjustifiable use of force, no-knock raids, and general use of paramilitary tactics are points EVERYONE can agree upon that need to be changed- however the idea that someone should be completely protected just because of the color of their skin is as grossly inappropriate as them being targeted because of it. If someone steals property, they won't be shot- but if they try to disarm a police officer or fight back? They probably will be- and there's not much that can be done to change that.

There's been countless times where BLM and protests around policing reform have been completely in the right (including Floyd, Castille, etc)- so why reference the case where they're more than likely in the wrong?

Protests don't affect change, voting does. If you want to actually instill change, you can't do it by raiding a target- you do it at the polls (for local offices just as much as national)

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