[jjsheridan5]

At this point the only person whose life is ruined is laying in the morgue — not that you give a diddley

Nonsense. Even if the evidence fully supports the officer's story, his career is finished, all because he was put into a no-win situation by a worthless thug. In addition, he, like Zimmerman, will always have a target on his back, because the race pimps won't let go of their fantasy that this was an evil white cop executing a poor little black kid (and they won't let go of that fantasy, because it lucrative, and enough people buy into it). As far as the Gentle Giant in the morgue, no, I don't really care. The lives of people like him usually leave a trail of pain and suffering in their wake. While I am not happy about his early demise, I cannot in good conscience say that I am terribly upset by it, either. Maybe he would have turned his life around, cured cancer, and gone on to be a productive member of society. But more likely he was going to end up dead, in jail, or a lifelong drain on the welfare system.

If his life was ruined, it was by his own hand that it was done, in all likelihood. And unless there is some evidence that hasn't been released yet, showing that he was in fact "executed", my concern about his fate is too small to be measured. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Uncle Chip]

My question is why the police left this officer to hang out there for 6 days???

It makes absolutely no sense since the police admitted that as they looked down at him in the street that he was the thug in the store.

They didn’t need 6 weeks of ballistics and autopsies in order to come to the microphone and say that the guy in the street was involved in a robbery.

The Ferguson PD takes a lot of blame for this and for the subsequent unrest.