From: Gregory Brown To: undisclosed-recipients:; Bcc: [email protected] Subject: Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.... 08/24/2014 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 07:25:49 +0000 Attachments: Wing_Huff Post 08 14_2014.docx; tips_For Being_An_Dnanned_Black Teen_The_Onion_Aug_ 1 5,_2014.docx; hort_History_Bobby_Ghost7 The Atlantic Aug._14,_2014.docx; Hawks exaggerate Islamic_State_threat_to —the Uni;d_States Daniel Benjamin Boston_ Globe —Aug._17,_24314.docx; Three_Charts lo ffmail_to_Your —Itight-Wing_Brother-In- Law Dave_ Johnson Huff Post_August_9,_2(714.docx; St. Couis Police Raease:Video Of Kajieme Powell Killing_That Appears_At Odds_Wi th —Their toty_i an_Grim_Hufi Post_08_20-_2014.d0cx; Ashford z_Simpson 0io.docx Inline-Images: image.png; image(1).png; image(2).png; image(3).png; image(4).png; image(5).png; image(6).png; image(7).png; image(8).png; image(9).png; image(10).png; image(11).png; image(12).png; image(13).png; image(14).png; image(15).png; image(16).png DEAR FRIEND Authorities in Ferguson, Mo deploy tear gas to disperse protesters where an unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a police officer. On the day when Ferguson, Missouri look like Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt during the height of the Arab Spring three years ago as the streets filled with tear gas, rubber bullets, heavily-armed SWAT teams and mine-resistant vehicles on the fourth night of unrest since Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, was shot to death by police on Aug. gth another headline caught my eye — Does the Second Amendment Only Apply to White People? The article in The Huffington Post by Keith Boykin chronicles the killing of Ezell Ford by police last week in Los Angeles who had reportedly suffered from mental illness. The official police statement online never mentioned if Ford had a weapon when he was killed. Although several media organizations reported he was unarmed, Boykin said that he could find no evidence from LAPD or the