What is "exhibiting characteristics of an armed person" and why is it punishable by death?

Easy answer, of course: breathing while black in proximity of a cop.

Read Simon Balto at LGM  then read Charles Preston on Twitter.

jesusfuckingchocolatecoveredchristonapogostick, '50s Mississippi wasn't this bad.  Fuck, apartheid south africa wasn't this bad.

But of course neither one of them had the Orange Loser.