Is everybody on this thread reading comprehension challenged?
All I said is that statements that Wilson “had no choice” but to shoot Brown are quite simply untrue.
He had a whole bunch of choices. Quite possibly he made the right one. As I specifically said, I’m not saying he made the wrong choice, only that he DID have other options.
We will never know whether both Brown and Wilson would have survived had he made one of those other choices. Perhaps today Wilson would be dead and Brown in prison on a capital murder charge. And nobody would have heard of either, outside of St. Louis.
Why didn’t Brown make the choice to not rob the shopkeeper? Why didn’t Brown make the choice to not walk in the middle of a street, to avoid coming to the attention of Officer Wilson? Why didn’t Brown make the choice to not attack Officer Wilson in his vehicle? Why didn’t Brown make the choice to keep running away from Officer Wilson, after failing to acquire Officer Wilson’s firearm, instead of turning and charging him?
He had a whole bunch of choices. He DID have other options that would not have resulted in his death, or the possibility of the death of Officer Wilson.