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The New York Times has come under fire for calling Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager who was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, "no angel." The evidence for this diagnosis? Brown once got into a scuffle with a neighbor, had taken to writing "vulgar" rap lyrics, and "dabbled in drugs and alcohol." Does this make Maureen Dowd no angel, too?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/08/new-york-times-calls-michael-brown-no-angel.html?mid=google&google_editors_picks=true
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)Some pig in Ferguson blew this kid's shit away for no reason whatsoever. This sounds like the "Trayvon had THC in his system" shit from a couple years ago.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)napkinz
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)that were angels. Besides, what has that got to do with an unarmed teenager that was shot 6 times and twice in the head.
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)We need to keep pointing out the double standards until they finally have to recognize that we are not going to accept a system which is inherently unfair.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)would STILL BE UNLAWFUL KILLINGS.