OFFICER DARREN WILSON IS GUILTY OF MURDER

Officer Darren Wilson is guilty of murder. There's no going around it. There's no leaping over it. There's no slithering under it. Despite the best efforts of Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson, the facts we already know are enough for a conviction. The police in Ferguson have demonstrated that their approach in policing the city is a heavy handed, brutal, para-military approach. The Ferguson police don't see themselves, obviously, as the protectors of the city; but more so the aggressive overseers of these people. The Ferguson police chief throughout this ordeal has been dismissive of the pain in the community and loss of Michael Brown's family; but most disturbingly the chief has offered up these odd false equivalencies to the press. When confronted with questions from the press regarding why the state law requiring the incident reports to be published the next day, the chief replied that he's concerned about the officer's safety. Forget the law, standard procedure, or the relationship with the community, right. The chief knowing full well that officer has the support of the whole department in ensuring his safety. Later, the chief trickles out a little more info in response to media questions on the officer who did the shooting by saying that well, the officer was treated for some minor injuries. Ok, chief. So what! As if, that was somehow justification. Even today as the chief was compelled to provide the name of the officer by his superiors, he precedes naming the officer by saying that Darren Wilson was pursuing a perpetrator who stole a pack of cigarillos. Again, SO WHAT! Even if Michael Brown is guilty of the strong arming of a QT employee, the punishment for stealing a couple of Swishers is not DEATH!

There are a couple of components to this that we need to break down and deal with. Frame it this way in your mind. There are two encounters here in which we have to consider the legality of officer Darren Wilson's actions-- the confrontation at officer Wilson's cruiser(encounter#1), and the shooting in the street (encounter#2). Let's explore the first encounter. We've had witnesses come forward that describe Michael Brown and his friend being stopped by Darren Wilson. Officer Wilson rolls up on these two kids and says basically 'Get the F--- out of the road'. He calls Mike Brown closer to the cruiser and reaches out and grabs his throat with one hand, and his gun with the other. Multiple witnesses see Mike Brown struggle to pull himself backwards away from the throat hold while pushing the officer's door closed. During this tussle, the officer achieves his apparent objective and shoots Michael Brown with one hand while still holding him with the other. After the shot, Darren Wilson releases Michael Brown who somehow manages to run and make it about 35 feet away. Stop right there. If the officer had snapped back to reality, called an ambulance, and taken Big Mike to jail; there would still be a huge investigation of this incident. Why did the officer reach for his gun. Was Mike Brown the perp at the QT? If so, the strong arm robbery says to an officer that the perp did not use a weapon. So, why did he draw his weapon? Why did he grab Mike Brown's throat from the car? Why not stop Brown, cuff him, detain him and investigate? If the officer believed Mike Brown was the convenience store cigarillo thief, why prompt the boys with 'Get the F--- out of the street' opening? Why not 'hold it boys, I need to detain you on suspicion of robber'? Either way, it seems odd that he immediately draws his gun and then shoots Brown. Now let's take the second piece of this--the street shooting. Michael Brown is now unarmed, injured with a gun shot wound to the upper torso, and limping away. Picture officer Darren Wilson's actions in your mind and see if they make sense. Officer Wilson after having shot Brown, then hops out of his cruiser, gun drawn and fires into the street at Brown. Brown, tired and injured, stops running, puts his hands up, turns to face the officer. As officer Darren Wilson approaches Brown who's a little over 30ft away, he is firing his gun. BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! That was only six but some say he fired as many as eight. At this point Michael Brown has been hit in the head and chest with bullets from the officer's service weapon and falls to the ground in a bloody death. Keep in mind this is the middle of a Saturday in a residential area and bystanders are HORRIFIED. Then for hours Mike Brown was allowed to lay dead in the street like an animal while Ferguson police took their sweet time in assessing the scene. What took so long? I'll tell you what took so long. Once more officers arrived on this scene, one-by-one each arriving officer realized this suspect had been MURDERED.

It doesn't take Perry Mason, Andy Griffith, or Angela Lansbury to sleuth out that you can't claim your life is in danger from a surrendering suspect, 10 yards away, and unarmed. So now we have a dilemma for chief Jackson and the boys on Ferguson PD. They desperately want Darren Wilson to get off for this but the zeal and blood lust of Wilson has left them little room for a proper cover up. Yes, even if the officer managed to somehow justify drawing his gun and not his TASER during the first encounter in the car, there is NO WAY he can justify the shooting in the street. I'm sure the CO for officer Wilson and perhaps others were desperately trying to write up an incident report that justified the shooting; so I can see why they just initially decided not to release one. Next up is the smear campaign on the victim. No matter how much the police and talking heads on the right try to denigrate the character of the young man who died, it wont change the facts. Officer Darren Wilson is guilty of murder.