Jaywalking isn't a death sentence. (click here). There is no dispute over what happened to prompt a police officer to stop this young man in the street. It was jaywalking. There was no reason to arrest him or escalate the circumstances. All he needed was a warning and a reminder those laws are in place to save lives.
The US Justice Department will be examining the evidence for civil rights violations. There is a reason for civil lawsuits. There is no reason for violence. This is a police scene because an office of the law believed in violence over community.
Ferguson has about 21 thousand people. It is a complete quandary to me how a local police officer in a city of 21 thousand people could react to a jaywalking incident with an 18 year old young man and have it end in the young man's death. It doesn't make sense to me. It is an outrageous set of circumstances that didn't develop one summer day in August.
I still can't believe that young man is dead. This seems so heinous to me. I don't expect a good return by the grand jury. I want the system to work. The US Justice Department has to find a way. This is an incredible death. This is not my America.
NBC News has a page dedicated to this case (click here).
No regrets by anyone in law enforcement. Wilson's lawyers witnessed his marriage. (click here) That young man's death is like water off a duck's back to these people. There is a lot wrong here.
