Justice Has Prevailed

If this is your first visit, be sure to read “Introduction”.

The death of Michael Brown is a tragedy.  There can be no argument about that.  There are signs that he was positioned to break out of the cycle of inner city poverty (I know Ferguson is technically a suburb, but it is, in reality, inner city) and move to a hopefully successful and prosperous life. He had somehow wrestled a high school diploma out of the abysmal education system foisted on the inner city poor, not to mention overcoming a subculture that denigrates striving for success,  and was accepted into college. I am sure his parents had high hopes that he would break free of the culture of hopelessness, poverty, crime and drugs that are features of the community in which he grew up.

Instead, he his dead.

We should all mourn.

But the tragedy did not begin in the 90 seconds prior to Darren Wilson pulling the trigger. The tragedy began that day when Michael decided to act in a criminally aggressive manner.

There is often a morbid, or sordid, inevitability to a chain of events.  We can watch the chain build knowing that if none of the links are broken, someone is going to get seriously, perhaps fatally, injured. Such is the case as one follows the events of Michael Brown's life on August 9, 2014, as illustrated by the evidence presented to the grand jury.

Michael Brown chose to engage in ever escalating aggression that day to the point where he attacked a police officer. The result is that both Darren Wilson and Michael Brown were hurt. Michael fatally.

Any one of the links in the chain could have been broken by Michael. He could have chosen not to shop lift. He could have chosen not to attack the store clerk, he (along with Dorian Johnson) could have chosen not to parade themselves in the middle of the street in an aggressive manner, he could have chosen to respond to Darren Wilson as instructed, he could have chosen not to attack a police officer. He could even have chosen to end the attack before it became deadly.

Instead, all of the links remained intact.

Michael Brown is dead.

The prosecuting attorney presented every shred of evidence available, damning and exculpatory, credible and fantastic, to the grand jury. That evidence clearly indicates that Darren Wilson's responses were not racially motivated criminal actions.  The decision of the grand jury not to return an indictment is fully supported by the evidence.

Those who had hoped for an indictment do so in a purely racist fashion. The evidence does not support an indictment.  The only reason to demand an indictment is that Darren Wilson is white. There is no other reason.

Based solely on racial hatred, the haters have rioted.