Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Ferguson: Officer Wilson will probably not be charged.

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/11/15/why-darren-wilson-must-walk-free/

Most of the eyewitnesses in this case have been black. With the racial tension in Missouri and the country to be honest, it is not surprising if Wilson is not indicted because we just don’t believe that black people can be honest, but this would make the eyewitness testimony of these construction workers (who are white) even more important. Testimonies shouldn’t be based off race, but it is America and it is the St. Louis area.
Now, let’s get into why Wilson may get to walk free and why so many are dead set on that happening. The racially repugnant, as I call them, do believe Wilson. They have to. They will discount the numerous eyewitnesses who saw a lot of what happened that day, saying Wilson continued firing when Brown’s hands were raised, in order to put 100% belief behind one man: the killer. As I mentioned before, killers do have an interest in lying. And yes, Dorian Johnson was a witness, but also a friend of Michael, so his story has a reason to be distorted as well. But most of the eyewitnesses from the scene do not know Wilson, nor did they know Brown.
Why do so may believe that Wilson must have feared for his life? The struggle at the car? Ok. We all can basically say there was some sort of struggle at the car. Now I personally do not know anyone, black or white, (unless very mentally ill) who will just go up to an armed cop and try to get his gun, but even if that was true, no one has been able to answer why Wilson kept firing and blasted Brown in the head twice, killing him. Every single account says that by that time Brown was not near Wilson and many say he was surrendering. So why did Wilson fire over, and over, and over? Every SINGLE shot fired has to be defended. In essence, if you punch me in the face very hard and I am scared, maybe I shoot you once. But 30 seconds later if you are leaving my house I can’t keep firing just because.
None of this really matters though, because a portion of our population continues to see Brown as a thug, a criminal, someone who got what he deserved. I call these people sanctimonious. So many of us have skeletons in our closets, and if we were shot every time we broke the law or had a moral lapse, we would all be dead, but these high-horse-riders seem to think that they have lived a perfect life. Or more accurately, that their sins or mistakes are just the inevitability of youth, not something worthy of death. They are better than Michael Brown. Their kids have probably done a lot worse than shoving a convenience store owner or stealing some cigarillos. However, their kids deserve to live. In fact, these white supporters probably never even fear that their kids will be killed by a cop, because history shows us that they aren’t as likely to suffer such a fate.
So these adamant Darren Wilson supporters think he has to walk free. Something deeper depends on it: our pattern of black abasement. Wilson not being indicted would prove that you can always claim self-defense against a black person, no matter their age, no matter how armed you are and how unarmed they are, no matter…

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