> Hello Tim,   
      
    >  TR>>> You rarely (if ever) hear about a policeman murdered by black street   
    >  TR>>> gang members. But let some black street thug bully an elderly store   
    >  TR>>> keeper and rob them of a fistful of cheap cigars....and all hell   
    >  TR>>> breaks loose in the media!   
      
    >  >> A young black man who buys some cigars and then is harrassed   
    >  >> by a non-black store owner is not a thief or a criminal.   
      
    >  TR> He didn't *buy* the cigars he *stole* them!   
      
    > The store clerk admitted the man had bought the cigars.   
       
   No, he did not!   
       
    >  TR> He wasn't being `harassed' by the lawful store clerk, he was   
    >  TR> `confronted'    
    > to   
    >  TR> pay for the cigars.   
       
    > The man pushed the clerk out of the way as he was exiting   
    > the door.  The clerk never would have been pushed out of the   
    > way had he been behind the counter like a normal person.   
       
   He was confronting a thief.   
       
    >  TR> Instead he intimidated the clerk (all of which was caught on the   
    >  TR> store's security video system), shoved the clerk at least once, and   
    >  TR> exited the store without paying for the cigars.   
        
    > You only saw one angle that had been edited for FoxNews, and the   
    > store clerk later admitted the man had in fact paid for the cigars.   
       
   I saw what he did at the door; he shoved the clerk at least once. It's right   
   on the security video.   
       
    >  TR> Michael Brown wasn't very smart,   
        
    > The man's intelligence, or lack of it, is not the issue.   
       
   It certainly is. He wasn't bright enough to make his 21st birthday.   
       
    >  TR> He threw his life away for a handful of cheap cigars.   
        
    > Well, not everybody has the same taste in cigars.   
       
   Or values them as high as he did, either.   
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