Ferguson: too much or not enough?

[Mister Agenda]

Ooohhhh I thought he was innocent. Do you have a link to the video when they took his corpse to trial and it was convicted by a jury of its peers?

It's in the same place as the video of the cop's trial, whom you've already convicted in absentia.

There's a good chance this is going to go down as a lawful shooting, unless physical evidence to discredit the cop's version is found: he didn't shoot Brown during the tussle at the police car, at that range there would have been gunshot residue. He didn't shoot Brown from behind, all the wounds are consistent with Brown facing the cop. The version of the witnesses, one of whom was close enough friends with Brown to steal cigars with him, is pretty shaky. It's not definitive yet, but since under our law the man is innocent until proven guilty, I think he's got a good chance of being acquitted, based on what we know so far.

I feel sorry for this kid and his family, and the response of the Ferguson police to protests was foolish, but the shooting is being investigated by the county and the feds, not the Ferguson PD, and it's their job to evaluate whether there's enough evidence to warrant bringing Wilson to trial, and then it's the jury's job to determine his guilt, not ours. We can't have as much evidence as they will before they have to make their decisions. The rightness or wrongness of the Ferguson PD response to rioters is independent of whether the shooting went down one way or the other. I think it's a mistake to attach too much to one version of the shooting when the real issue is cops who look like they're equipped to free hostages from ISIL showing up for crowd control in an American town and detaining journalists.