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A CNN headline says that the black man was unarmed, only with a phone in hand.
But many paragraphs into the body (after the clickbait has already generated chicks clicks), we learn that Brown threatened to kill his brother and told a dispatcher that he had a gun, and also that he did not.
So the cop who shot him was in a mindset of both protecting Brown's brother and himself. The cop mistook the phone for a gun. That's Brown's fault for inexplicably claiming he had a gun.
This kind of fake outrage doesn't help in fighting true, valid cases of police abuse.
But many paragraphs into the body (after the clickbait has already generated chicks clicks), we learn that Brown threatened to kill his brother and told a dispatcher that he had a gun, and also that he did not.
So the cop who shot him was in a mindset of both protecting Brown's brother and himself. The cop mistook the phone for a gun. That's Brown's fault for inexplicably claiming he had a gun.
This kind of fake outrage doesn't help in fighting true, valid cases of police abuse.
An unarmed man was shot by a Virginia deputy who gave him a ride home an hour earlier
An unarmed Black man was shot by a Virginia sheriff's deputy while on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, according to authorities and 911 audio released Friday.
www.cnn.com