It was in August of 2014 and I was lounging on the couch soaking in the news. The story of the day on my go-to channel, MSNBC, was the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson Missouri. The news people at MSNBC were unabashedly intimating that this young man, Brown, 18 years old, soon to be on his way to college, had been mown down, murdered by a maverick policeman. Before he was shot a witness report claimed Brown held his hands up in a don't shoot gesture to the policeman who h