Imho, Brown's death was suicide-by-cop.  I wish the writers who have blogged about Michael Brown repeatedly would have spent some time and energy looking into the facts of Brown's life.  Why was he so eager to throw it away?  McGivern wrote a blog claiming that the video from the store was fake.  She has never retracted or apologized.  Another writer for NCR said Brown was "executed" for jaywalking.  She has never retracted or apologized.  McGivern boasted of chanting HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT.  She has never explained. 

Now she claims Brown "was set to start community college the next week."  Where does she get that idea?  At the time it was said Brown was enrolled at Vatterott, a for-profit school, not a community college, but that school has never confirmed it.  Maybe he had not enrolled, and part of the misery that caused him to throw away his life was the fear that his grandmother would find out.  

McGivern says Brown was "unarmed."  Not because he didn't try to get Wilson's gun.