This is funny because most if not all witnesses did not corroborate with the police story. And a coroner report showed he had to have had his hands in the air when he was shot. So it's all irrelevant. He was unarmed and surrendering and was gunned down.
Race has everything to do with it. If you don't think so, you are just being a clueless white person. There's a long long list of unarmed deaths of black people doing absolutely nothing to get killed, or black people cops have shot at and failed to kill for things like trying to hand over their license when it was requested.
Why even trust the police so implicitly, in all of these cases they have been confirmed as inherently dishonest.
And the real case we should be looking at, if you want to single one out, is the garner case, where the entire thing was video taped. There was no reaching for a gun or any sort of question of what happened. It was five police officers assaulting an unarmed black man who was, at worst, mildly uncooperative, which, based on his words was because this was a common thing for the police to harass him. He repeatedly says he can't breath. The chokehold is illegal. Everything done was excessive force and no restraint. Incidentally, the video taper was indited on a gun charge. I find this interesting, because that probably wouldn't have happened if he hadn't taped the incident, and in some states, it is a felony to tape the cops at all.
So even body cameras seem kind of useless, when the prosecutors try really hard to not get an indictment, and that happens despite the entire thing being taped.
We also have the case of the twelve year old boy with the toy gun. The tape for that was recently released and multiple lies by the police became evident. He does none of the threatening things they claim in the video. He was gunned down immediately.
So what I don't understand is, if you want to be obtuse about the brown case, you don't really have a justification to question the other two cases.
If you want I can start digging up more unarmed black people being murdered by cops without repercussions, or things like the black woman in jail recently that was brutally beaten by correctional officers and they also weren't indicted.
The only people that are saying that race isn't what matters here are the people that do not have this threat to deal with because of their race.