Yes, that scene is just about like I envisioned it to be from seeing the image of the bullet holes in Brown.
I don't think Wilson should be charge with a crime in this case, but then that doesn't mean I think he did the right thing either. I was never a police officer, but I have stood my share of Shore Patrol duty. We never carried fire arms while on SP duty but we did carry a rather healthy baton. I never wanted to use the thing on anyone other than in a gut punch because I knew if I laid that thing along side a guys ear, he was never going to recover.
So with that thought in mind, anytime a confrontation was about to happen where I did not think I could handle the guy without beating the hell out of him with the billy club, I would delay the confrontation until back up arrived. Call in the regular SPs and a Jeep load of them would show up real soon. Now the combined lot of you can take down the guy without beating the piss out of him with a club. Club punch to the gut accepted.
It seems to me the Police training is in error here, especially with white guy policing in a black neighborhood. One has to expect that many black people will in fact see the lone white cop as something to count coup on especially since they see the police in general as the tip of the spear for the system that suppresses their rights.
This does not happen often with a white kid, bad ass as he may see himself, he has not been taught that the cop is suppressor of rights, He may even know that the cop is there to protect rights. Anyway the confrontations are very rare. Most conservative Caucasians and perhaps Asians, do indeed believe rights come from the creator and are non negotiable, just as mister Jefferson implied where as it seem many black people may subconsciously believe that the system (run by the white majority) withhold their rights and the white cop is the visible symbol of the whole problem.
Some how this view has to change, we are endowed with our rights by our creator without regard to race. But until the change can be implemented the police need to keep in mind that a confrontation with a big black fella can be handled with aid and magic of numbers rather than by lethal force in the hands of one scared white boy.
This whole concept is why I think Obama, with his bully pulpit and all, has punted! He should have begun the process of change.
