Michael Reagan: “[Michael] Brown’s case does not deserve to be held up as an example of an innocent young black man being unjustifiably or casually shot down by a white police force. He didn’t die because he was black, or because officer Wilson or the Ferguson police force was racist. Brown died because he was stupid. If anyone of us, black or white, had a young son who did the same dumb things Brown did in the last minutes of his life, he would have ended up at the local funeral home too. There are important issues the country needs to address about how to improve the relationship between police and black communities. And we need to train and equip police in better ways, so that encounters between cops and unarmed citizens of all races and colors are as safe as possible. The Eric garner chokehold case in New York proves we still have a lot of work to do. Until we solve these complicated policing problems, I have some advice. If you don’t want to get shot dead by a cop, don’t rob a convenience store, don’t try to grab a cop’s gun and don’t charge the cop after he orders you to stop.”