Subj : Re: All Lives Matter
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Tim Richardson
Date : Sat Oct 24 2015 02:15 pm

> 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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