Today is Sunday November 23rd, 2014. It’s the beginning of the week, a new week and all last week we were waiting for the grand jury decision on whether or not Officer Darren Wilson would be indicted for the shooting death of Michael Brown. Last night, the evening news reported that we were waiting for the decision.
Maybe it’s me but I think that after Tuesday or Wednesday, it would have been suitable, appropriate even, to start using the past participle, been in their descriptions. After all, we’ve been waiting for the decision now for more than a full week. What bright spot jumped the gun in the first place?
It’s no big deal really, we do want them to get it right; so prolonged deliberation is a good thing, isn’t it? On the other hand, it’s been said that when it takes this long to make a decision, somebody’s going to get screwed. Continue reading
The Necessity of the Everything Cop
Does it surprise anyone that around the anniversary of Mike Brown’s death, we get an interview with ex-Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson; his first since the controversial shooting of the unarmed young man. I read it and came away with mixed feelings.
It bears witness to the complexity of things when you try to pigeonhole human behavior into neat and nice brackets, highlighted by racial, cultural or age differences. Things are truly not always black and white; there exists a whole lot of gray out there. Continue reading →
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