Quote Originally Posted by jackvance View Post
So the physical evidence completely corroborated Wilson's account and unlike what everyone's been saying, he did know Brown was a robber in fact he was specifically sent out to apprehend him.

No surprise btw, the national guard had been called days prior, everyone knew Wilson hadn't done anything wrong and wasn't going to get indicted. The biggest tragedy i see here how the media keeps framing everything to incite racial tensions.

I'm getting more and more convinced that the only way to break this cycle of racial tensions is to call for public opinion to stop framing blacks as helpless victims, it just polarizes everyone. Defining black culture as gangster culture creates the dissent or divide that we are still seeing today. It's 2014, if anything else was going to solve these issues, it would have happened already. Jews and asians coming to the US as immigrants with nothing but the clothes on their back took less than a generation to get to a similar economic level as whites. This strongly contradicts the common notion that it's just because black people are poor or that they're being held back.

Btw if anyone still thinks the police or prosecutor are in the wrong here, what are the arguments? I don't see it anymore.
On the bold, it's worth pointing out that he didn't know that Brown was the person who had robbed the store until after the altercation had already started. Wilson wasn't even going to respond to the robbery call and was on the way to a call about a sick baby. It was while he was heading to that call that he came across Brown and his associate walking in the road which started the whole ordeal.