<p>"So what should be done to him? You seem to want to paint all police officers with a broad brush in the same manner you claim they treat AA males. "</p>
<p>Yes, exactly! Thank you for articulating this. </p>
<p>Who is using a broad brush? Using generalizations seems to work for some people when it, you know, works for some people.</p>
<p>Generalizations have nothing to do with a potential criminal case. People are using a broad brush here because the picture painted by the particulars is not so pretty. The number of posters who have very strong opinions without much information is interesting, as well. It’s really a case of facts don’t matter at all which unfortunately helps no-one get to the next phase. This problem is not new and it’s an endless circle… </p>
<p>Which is why we ought to have a jury trial.</p>
<p>And, then when the jury returns a not guilty verdict we can have a riot. Great idea. I think we’ve done that before, too. </p>
<p>FWIW, I heard that Officer Wilson has resigned from the Fergeson Police Deparmtent. No reasons were given but the police chief and mayor both say they did not ask him to resign.</p>
<p>marie, being afraid of potential riots is not a valid reason not to conduct a proper trial.</p>
<p>The result will be no different is more the point I was trying to make there. The burden of proof is higher and the evidence is the same. Physical evidence, especially. </p>
<p>He resigned because there were threats made against him and any other officer that he would work with. He supposedly left without a severance and there is no mention of any kind of financial settlement. He will have to find other work apparently.</p>
<p>Realistically, he could not possibly be effective on the Ferguson Police Department any more. </p>
<p>No. And it seems he wasn’t well suited to police work in the first place.</p>
<p>I hope he is able to go on and live his life in peace. If I were him I would probably leave the St. Louis area.</p>
<p>Why wasn’t he well suited for police work? What do any of us know about him besides this episode where he was determined to be within his legal rights to act as he did?</p>
<p>That would be like someone posting that Mr Brown was not well suited to attend trade school based on what we had seen. That would be an inappropriate comment and so was yours about Mr Wilson.</p>
<p>I might also think that Michael Brown was not well suited to attend trade school. What difference does that make?</p>
<p>Darren Wilson let the situation in the street get out of control. There were many other ways he could have handled it that would not have resulted in Brown’s death. Not only that, he broke protocol in numerous ways following the shooting, including driving himself back to the station, improperly handling evidence (his gun) and washing his hands.</p>
<p>You can second guess all you want but you really have no idea if he could have handled it any other way. Whether you like it or not the GJ said he was justified.</p>
<p>There are several cases that need to be addressed about police the one in SC the one in Staten Island maybe the one in Cleveland but this is not such a case. </p>
<p>It really seems to me that several of you have the same bias that you claim cops have. Can you give police a fair shake or are they always guilt in your mind?</p>
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<p>I think the dead guy let the situation get out of control. If he said “sorry sir!” and moved out of the road, what would’ve happened?</p>
<p>This article said McCullough did not run the GJ</p>
<p><a href=“Ferguson jurors faced safety fears, lots of work”>Ferguson jurors faced safety fears, lots of work;
<p>I am back on the idea of a “life and death struggle at the SUV”. This reminds me of the lines form Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant where he says that Officer Obie took away his wallet and his belt in the jail cell (jailed for littering for those who don’t know the song). I paraphrase:</p>
<p>Guthrie says, “I can see you taking away my wallet so I don’t have any money to spend in the cell but why did you take away my belt?”</p>
<p>Officer Obie: “We don’t want any hangings”</p>
<p>Guthrie: “Did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?!”</p>
<p>So Brown, who is stoned but has no violent criminal record that we are aware of has just stolen a box of cigarillos from a convenience store. He is at risk of being apprehended on his way home. Does it make sense to run and hope that he isn’t identified? Maybe. Does it make sense to hope that the officer doesn’t have a description of the perps? Maybe. Does it make sense, as his buddy stated the day of the killing, that Wilson backed up abruptly and landed too close to the boys and had his door “ricochet” off Brown as he tried to open it to exit the vehicle hitting him in the face whereupon he became frustrated and angry and grabbed Brown through the window escalating the situation? Yes, in my mind. Does it make sense that if Brown thought that he was positively identified as the perp for the stolen cigarillos that he would grab for the officer’s gun and attempt to kill the officer either with the gun or his bare hands? No, in my opinion. People are stupid some times but why would a kid who still has something to lose and no history, attack an officer with deadly force over an item worth less than $50? That’s like hanging yourself for littering.</p>
<p>In the back of my mind, I think there is a chance that both of them could have an ill-placed priority or even an ill-placed ego. Now one of them is dead, and I think the life of Mr. Wilson will be changed forever (likely for worse. Fair or not, he may need to be concerned about his safety for many years. He in a sense ends up getting into the “mess” of the historical white-black race problem in the past and/or even social unjustness between the have and the have-not today. Neither of them should be the “poster child” for such a heavy burden.) It is a tragedy for both of them. I guess that if Mr. Wilson had the choice again when he saw these two walking in the middle of the road and knew the person he was going to confront would be such a messed-up person, he might choose to have a blind-eye to such a relatively minor offense.)</p>
<p>saintfan just because it does not make sense to you and I does not mean Brown did not grab the gun.</p>
<p>\This officer was killed in his car by someone he just stopped to talk to. He had no idea the murderer had committed other crimes.</p>
<p><a href=“Lakewood Police Officer Chris Matlosz shot to death 'execution-style' while on duty - nj.com”>Lakewood Police Officer Chris Matlosz shot to death 'execution-style' while on duty - nj.com;
<p>That was a guy who had his own gun, though, and may have had other more serious reasons why he didn’t want to be identified. The article says that he fled the scene and hasn’t been found or identified. Chances are he had used the gun before and was afraid that he would be apprehended. While horrible, there may be rational reasons why apprehension would be worse in his mind than the course of action that he chose. Please note that I am not saying that the actions are justified or make sense in the larger order of the universe . . . only that the young man in question had his own weapon and may have calculated that he wasn’t going down without a fight. That is not the case with Brown.</p>
<p>But there is proof that Brown grabbed the gun and struck the officer.</p>
<p>That is an old story and the murderer was caught. </p>