I’ve actually found a shooting that black people & Hollywood have a right to be upset about; in fact, everyone in America should be upset by this one.

I had no problem with the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson.  All you have to do is read the facts of the case and you know that there were many black eyewitnesses who said that Michael Brown had just committed a strong-arm robbery of a convenience store, willfully ignored the commands of a police officer to get out of traffic while walking down the the center of the street, attacked the officer in his car, ran away, then turned around & charged the officer like a bull and his hands were not raised at any point.  That’s when he was fatally shot by the officer.  Keep in mind the officer had already tried to shoot him when Brown was reaching into his car & trying to get the officer’s gun & attacking him, but that shot only grazed his thumb.  Michael Brown was nut case & he deserved exactly what he got.

Her’s another guy I don’t have a lot of sympathy for, but he did get a raw deal to degree — Eric Garner — habitual criminal, albeit petty crimes.  He died because he verbally resisted arrest by telling the cops he would not allow himself to be arrested, as though he were special & had a right to loudly question officers in the performance of their job rather than simply peacefully submitting to them, then when they tried to arrest him, he then physically resisted arrest.  He’s a large guy, so they took him down using a partial chokehold.  It was not a true chokehold as he could breathe, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to speak, but I agree it was the wrong maneuver to use.  He stroked out on them because he was in such poor health due to being incredibly overweight, which is his own slovenly fault, and because they caused him to have an asthmatic episode & restricted his breathing while piling on top of him on the ground.  A chokehold could kill anybody depending on how applied & for how long, but a big fat guy could get killed easily, and they should have known that they were preventing him from breathing properly & that he was in distress.  Chokehold takedowns of any kind & piling up on a suspect causing compressive asphyxia should be illegal in all law enforcement situations, but if Garner hadn’t resisted arrest in the first place, it never would have happened — Garner himself was the catalyst in his own death.

But John Crawford, who was shot by a cop in Ohio in a Walmart, did nothing at all to provoke being shot, at least nothing anybody else would do if they were buying a toy air rifle.  He picked up the air rifle & was swinging it back & forth, pointed at the ground the entire time, never interacted with anyone, and was browsing the shelves for something else to buy while talking on his cellphone.  Some idiot named Ronald Ritchie, another shopper in Walmart, called 911 & told them that Crawford had an ASSAULT rifle & was walking around & pointing it at people.  Ronald Ritchie should be in prison for what he did, as he was an accomplice to what I believe was a police homicide, and he later recanted & said Crawford didn’t do anything he said he did, and the Walmart video proves Crawford didn’t.  When the cops arrived, they snuck up on Crawford & told him to drop the weapon & didn’t give him a chance to do much of anything before Officer Sean Williams shot him twice.  Crawford never pointed the gun at the cop & only told him it was a toy gun.  The only problem you could possibly have in this case is that Crawford didn’t react quick enough to drop the gun & tried instead to explain himself, and he was walking around the store with a toy gun, BUT the hyper cop didn’t give him a chance to do so or a chance to drop it & instead killed him, AND if Walmart doesn’t want people walking around the store with toy guns, don’t put them on the shelves.