“Wouldn’t it have been a better outcome had the cop just called in for backup?”
Evidently you don’t believe in reading the evidence of the grand jury before you engage in prejudicial assumptions and accusations, because the evidence states unequivocally that Officer Darren Wilson had already called for backup. The radio call logs and other evidence also reveal how there was already a problem with the police and police dispatcher having more calls for police assistance than there were police units available to answer those calls at the time. So, Officer Darren Wilson was obligated to determine who these suspects were and what they were doing in the middle of the street where they were obstructing the traffic, before Michael Brown assaulted police officer Darren Wilson as he was seated in his Tahoe police vehicle.
Given the fact the suspect, Michael Brown, had just committed an assault and battery upon a police officer with shots fired in an attempted murder of that police officer and was also a suspect in the robbery of the convenience-liquor store; Officer Darren Wilson no longer had any discretion to allow the suspect to leave the scene of the crime. Had Officer Darren Wilson allowed the suspect, Michael Brown, to leave the scene of the crime and Brown injured or killed another person, Officer Darren Wilson would have been responsible for not forestalling Michael Brown’s violence against that innocent victim.
Furthermore, you fail to note how a later altercation between law enforcement officers versus Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson could just as well have resulted in the deaths of Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson. Given how Michael Brown is the stepson of a Bloods gang member, you have no way of knowing whether or not any law enforcement officers and/or innocent bystanders could have been injured or killed by Michael Brown and/or gang members armed with firearms in a later encounter. Today’s news reports two FBI Special Agents were shot and injured while assisting Universal City police to serve an arrest warrant only 5 miles away from last night’s violent rioting in Ferguson. So far as you know, Officer Darren Wilson may have saved innocent lives by following normal police procedure and apprehending the robbery suspect before the suspect and suspect’s gang member associates could take more lethal action against law enforcement and the pulic in general.
“Given the fact the suspect, Michael Brown, had just committed an assault and battery upon a police officer with shots fired in an attempted murder of that police officer and was also a suspect in the robbery of the convenience-liquor store; Officer Darren Wilson no longer had any discretion to allow the suspect to leave the scene of the crime. “
We all know about the assault, Wilson also was aware when he got out of the vehicle that he was incapable of taking him alive due to the perps size. It would have been more prudent to wait the few minutes until the backup arrived, and probably nobody would have gotten killed and the city wouldn’t have been torched. And the thug would be in jail awaiting trial.
That would have been the right thing to do. And it would have ended better. Much better... As Kenny Rogers said:
“You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em. Know when to fold ‘em.
Know when to walk away, Know when to run”
Like I said before, Wilson won the battle and lost the war. And it was because of the culture within the PD. Police are taught they have to win every battle, and that’s not the way the world works.