Discussion for article #232328
Same shit different day/year/decade.
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This isn’t a surprise. It’s very difficult to prove a racial motive in a situation like this…even with all the racial stuff going on with cops and black people, you can’t unequivocally say that this killing was racially motivated. The feds can’t charge him based on the evidence (which should have lead to a trial at the very least), and the evidence doesn’t have anything in it that shows the officer was racially motivated to shoot Brown (no name calling or anything like that). I do think there is an (unjustified) increased fear by police of black people, and that affected Wilson’s actions (hence all the comments about demons), but that’s best handled with an investigation of the entire department. The right venue for taking Wilson to trial was the courts, and that failed horribly (and people should be going to jail or fired for that debacle).
Personally, I’m upset that the justice system is failing in all of these cases to punish the actions of the police…it’s most troubling that after these shootings the victims are not receiving medical care. That’s just unconscionable, and the real place where people should be concentrating efforts to criticize the police…but that’s the whole point of #blacklivesmatter, though it’s getting lost in the argument about if the person getting shot “deserved it”.
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True. However many holes there were in Wilson’s story, Michael Brown was unavailable to provide a different story.
I came here to comment after nearly shouting at my screen in anger while reading the comments to the times articles. There is a consistant pattern of people defending “law enforcement” commenting and upvoting each other. It is sick, and disturbing.
This decision is likely the right one. It seems to me that Officer Wilson did not shoot Michael Brown because he was trying to shoot a black man. He did not shoot him because he thought that Mike’s blackness would let him get away with it. He shot him because he was scared. He started a fight with a kid by yelling at him through the window of his car. The unarmed kid is dead with six shots. He is dead because he was large, and black. It is a fucking tragedy.
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I am not at all surprised by the decision.
Had he been charged, it would have had nothing to do with justice, only the bowing to the black and liberal racist protesters who think they deserve a free ride every time they are offended by law and order.
From the facts it appears that Brown was a big aggressive thug that probably had little future as a result of our society’s failure to require certain levels of behavior. Some one (either a policeman or another thug) would have eventually killed him.
Now, we need to try to work on some national (not local) solution to the thousands of young black men who have no more future than Brown had. I don’t know the answer, but I will offer that bringing back the draft might possibly give a last chance to some of these boys, by teaching them discipline, responsibility, and a trade.
OK, now all of you out there who have no solution are welcome to divert from the real problem, by jumping on me. Well, have it.
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The first thing is to treat all people with respect. This means that you don’t fund your city by tickiting the poorest and blackest. The next thing is to use the word “thug” to refer to individuals with a history of murder, assault, or at least bullying, not a stoned black kid who stole some cheap cigars. The third thing is to not call protesters who are shouting at cops who ticket, abuse, and murder them, racists.
Oh, and you have some good points. Please don’t refer to people as racist when all they are protesting white cops ticketing, killing, and harrasing them. That just makes you look like just another conservative who has no connection to reality in the slightest.
Oh, as well, too, the best way to help these communities? Quite electing conservatives who value truthiness over truth, and rhetoric over policies.
He also went for the cops gun, probably with the intent of killing him.
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"I am not at all surprised by the decision.
Had he been charged, it would have had nothing to do with justice, only the bowing to the black and liberal racist protesters who think they deserve a free ride every time they are offended by law and order.
From the facts it appears that Brown was a big aggressive thug that probably had little future as a result of our society’s failure to require certain levels of behavior. Some one (either a policeman or another thug) would have eventually killed him.
Now, we need to try to work on some national (not local) solution to the thousands of young black men who have no more future than Brown had. I don’t know the answer, but I will offer that bringing back the draft might possibly give a last chance to some of these boys, by teaching them discipline, responsibility, and a trade.
OK, now all of you out there who have no solution are welcome to divert from the real problem, by jumping on me. Well, have it."
Hey Wagonmound;
I have a solution for you. Print yourself up a bunch of “Paragon of Virtue” T-shirts and go sell that bigoted shit somewhere else.
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And he was scared because Michael Brown was black. I call it the “soft bigotry of cultural ignorance.”
He’s not a Klansman, no – rather, he’s a white cop who would extend the benefit of the doubt only to his own kind. We see this pattern nationwide – white people with guns aren’t shot, black teenagers without guns are.
So it is perhaps a distinction without a difference that Wilson’s actions may not have been borne specifically of racial animus but rather racial paranoia: Michael Brown is just as dead.
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Of course you aren’t.
And that cop shot twelve times and hit Brown only six times, leaving us to conclude that the fatal shots were at a distance that Brown was no longer a physical threat.
That is, unless the theory is that Wilson is one utterly incompetent individual shooting a firearm in close quarters at such a big, black, threatening demon.
He was a big, black threatening demon by Wilson’s own testimony, wasn’t he? Just how does one miss a big, black, threatening demon six times when he’s close enough to do harm? And why was this question never asked at the grand jury presentment?
It doesn’t pass the laugh test. Brown was executed at a distance. Period. Of that there’s no doubt in my mind.
This entire case was mishandled from the get-go, with egregious violations on the part of the defense attorney --er, excuse me, I mean district attorney which have been enumerated by many sources and are available on the Internet for anyone interested in justice.
All people have asked for is a real trial, chips falling where they may, with the intense scrutiny of our advocacy system, not some one-sided dog-and-pony whitewashing of the case by a DA who heads an organization that sold Darren Wilson T shirts, sweeping it under the rug as deftly as possible.
Now it seems that justice will be denied, and the police state becomes even further entrenched.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
— Martin Niemöller
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