mamabearCali wrote:Yes he was a teen.....but he was not by any stretch if the imagination the innocent fresh faced youth portrayed originally.
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You got it. That was the point I was trying to make.
ShotgunBlast wrote:The parents did not deny that their son is in the video.
When I was watching the news on Saturday, the Anchor said that the attorney for the family, acting as their spokes person, said that they felt as though the film was not legit, accusing the police of defaming their son using (and this word is a quote) "PhotoShop" to doctor up the video.
Obviously, this would not be the first time CNN reported something that was not true or inaccurate... just made my statement based on what they said on TV.
The police officer also did not know Brown was a robbery suspect at the time of the altercation.
It doesn't matter if the cop knew he committed the robbery or not. The kid committed Aggravated Felony Assault on a Peace Officer when the cop tried to get him out of the middle of the street. Not including anything from the robbery, just the altercation that took place directly between the two is more than enough to justify lethal force under our current laws.
All of the pictures I've seen of this guy have him with a bit of facial hair. I don't think the media in general is trying to make him look younger like when they were posting those Treyvon pictures.
The first two days this was going on they were showing pictures of Mike Brown with a red hoodie sweater. They stopped using that one on TV on the second day because it was discovered that he was only 10 years old in that picture. Same thing with another picture where he was wearing a denim jacket and a dark baseball cap. They stopped using that one because he was not a teen in that photo either, though I didn't here anyone say how old he was in that picture.