08:45 – I watched the DA announce the grand jury verdict last night. Silly me. The announcement was scheduled for 9:00 p.m. ET, and I expected it to be over by 9:01 ET. I mean, how much was there to say? But instead of simply announcing that the grand jury had returned no true bill, the DA stood there talking for 40+ minutes before he announced the verdict.
So, he finally announced that the cop wouldn’t be prosecuted and, as expected, the rioting, shooting, looting, and burning began soon after. If I had been running things, I would have taken the opportunity to read the Riot Act and issue riot shotguns with #00 buckshot to all of the police officers, along with orders to shoot on sight any rioters/shooters/looters/burners they encountered.
I have nothing but contempt for those racist assholes who tried to make this situation all about race. It had nothing to do with race. It was merely a cop doing his duty, protecting himself and civilians by shooting a violent criminal thug who was in the process of attacking that cop. That cop did all of us a favor. The world is better off without Michael Brown in it, and would be even better off if the cops killed every other violent criminal thug.
I also have nothing but contempt for the mainstream media, who also tried to to make this situation all about race. Listening to them, one would think that every black person in the country thought that the cop should be hanged for murdering an innocent black man, while every white person in the country thought it was just fine for cops to murder innocent black men. The real truth is that the divide was not racial, but between those–black and white–who support colorblind enforcement of law and order versus those–black and white–who believe that Brown’s skin color should have given him a free pass to behave lawlessly.
Consider this. Had the situation been reversed–had Darren Wilson been a black cop and Michael Brown a white thug–those who support law and order, regardless of their own race, would have supported the black cop who defended himself by shooting the white thug. But those who are currently out there protesting, shooting, looting, and burning wouldn’t be doing those things had Wilson been black and Brown white. So who are the real racists?