Author seems to mistakenly believe that support for Officer Wilson is indicative of blind support for police action in general, which could not be further from the truth. There are bad apples, I’ve experienced it myself as have quite a few. If I thought for one second that Wilson’s actions were questionable, I’d be a little more understanding and supportive. It has nothing to do with his race or the race of Michael Brown. It has everything to do with the law and the behavior of the two individuals in question under that law. Brown violated the law, attempted to wrest a gun away from a police officer that he’d attacked. He was shot as a result, and died. Brown was responsible for his actions and he’s responsible for his fate. He’s responsible, not Wilson, not “the system,” not white people. Had he behaved differently, obeyed the law and not attacked a police officer, he would be alive today.
I was born and raised in Germany and when I went to school a policeman came every so often to our classroom to talk, you know how to safely cross the street. First look left, then right, then left again. And he always said: remember the police is your friend and helper. I found this to be true many times. The father of one of my schoolmates was a police man and he might have been the one who came to our school. Our town only had a population of 3000 people