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I'm pulling this out here, so that people can keep it out of the other thread, and this ought to make it easier for folks to ignore if they don't want to talk about it.
According to the DoJ report, the evidence tends to support Officer Wilson's testimony about what happened. From the independent report, it appears that the SPECIFIC action of the shooting was justified.
According to the SECOND DoJ report, pretty much everything else the Ferguson police department has ever done ISN'T. It's a corrupt system from top to bottom.
So there's irony that the thing that actually brought attention to how corrupt and unjust the department is was, in fact, not actually an example of how corrupt and unjust the department is. Nonetheless, it does explain exactly WHY the citizens of Ferguson assumed it was unjustified: because EVERYTHING the Ferguson cops EVER do is unjustified.
Except that. Everyone assumed that the cops shot Brown in the back and then covered it up, because that's the sort of thing they routinely do in Furgeson. Except this was the one time that they didn't.
Weird, hunh?
According to the DoJ report, the evidence tends to support Officer Wilson's testimony about what happened. From the independent report, it appears that the SPECIFIC action of the shooting was justified.
According to the SECOND DoJ report, pretty much everything else the Ferguson police department has ever done ISN'T. It's a corrupt system from top to bottom.
So there's irony that the thing that actually brought attention to how corrupt and unjust the department is was, in fact, not actually an example of how corrupt and unjust the department is. Nonetheless, it does explain exactly WHY the citizens of Ferguson assumed it was unjustified: because EVERYTHING the Ferguson cops EVER do is unjustified.
Except that. Everyone assumed that the cops shot Brown in the back and then covered it up, because that's the sort of thing they routinely do in Furgeson. Except this was the one time that they didn't.
Weird, hunh?