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Line 35: The saying "pants up, don't loot" emerged in response to the gesture.<ref name=Lovelace>{{cite journal|last1=Lovelace|first1=Ryan|title='Pants Up, Don’t Loot'|journal=National Review|date=August 18, 2014|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385681/pants-dont-loot-ryan-lovelace|accessdate=December 3, 2014}}</ref> "Pants up" is an allusion to [[Sagging (fashion)|sagging]]. Supporters of Darren Wilson, the officer involved in the shooting, raised more than $3,000 on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo to purchase a billboard ad in the Ferguson area displaying "pants up, don't loot" in black text on a white background, along with "#PantsUPDontLoot".<ref name=Koplowitz>{{cite news|last1=Koplowitz|first1=Howard|title='Pants Up, Don't Loot' Billboard Planned By Darren Wilson Supporters As Ferguson Grand Jury Decision Nears|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/pants-dont-loot-billboard-planned-darren-wilson-supporters-ferguson-grand-jury-1725029|accessdate=December 3, 2014|work=International Business Times|date=November 17, 2014}}</ref> Despite reaching its goal, the campaign cancelled the project due to controversy. ====Truth or Myth==== Michael brown didn't have his hands up in for surrendering. Some have criticized that gesture, like MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough, who has repeatedly called it "a lie." "What is wrong with these people? What is wrong with these elected officials?" Scarborough asked on Tuesday morning's show. "They know it's a lie. They know the cops didn't shoot him with his hands in the air." The question at the heart of the controversy has been extremely difficult to ascertain. Witness testimonies provide clues, but they are wildly conflicting. One of the oft-cited witnesses, an employee of a maintenance company who was working at the apartment complex near the scene of the incident, testified that Brown first ran from the officer, then stumbled to a halt and spun around toward Wilson. “Michael Brown was kind of moving at him like, ‘I’m giving up, hands up,’ ” the witness said. He said he heard Brown shout, “OK, OK, OK.” Another oft-cited witness known as Witness 10 testified that after Brown turned to face Wilson, he went “full charge at the officer.” The witness said Brown “was not in a surrendering motion of ‘I’m surrendering, putting my hands up,’ or anything.” To illustrate the witnesses' varying interpretations of what they saw, the Post published a graphic, "Descriptions of Brown's Movement," that showed how differently observers perceived his actions. The same behavior by the same man was alternately described as both "charging" and "surrendering," as well as a host of other descriptors in-between. reported BY the National Review. ==See also== | |||