And no, it's NOT their skin color... The simple fact is that none of these guys would have died if they had chosen to NOT let the attitude of thug culture rule them.
When confronted, we have a choice and have control over our response and actions.
If you want to take this a step further, both of these "brave souls" had problems with authority. Obey the law and live, screw with the law and what do you expect??
Those drawing an equivalency between the two cases are entirely off base, IMO. In Ferguson you had a guy who was being aggressive in the extreme and the cop was alone. Here the guy just basically went down and complained he couldn't breathe, with lots of fellow cops there to assist. Night and day.
