You stole my favorite line about situations like this.

"Live like a thug, die like a thug."

This whole thing seems ridiculously cut and dry to me.

There are thousands of interactions every day between police officers and civilians. The overwhelming majority don't end in somebody getting shot. When they do, it's because somebody was a dumbass and caused the herd to get thinned.

I'm sure all of these citizens looking for JUSTICE would be out there marching to convict Mr. Brown if he had succeeded in getting the officers gun and shooting him dead.