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s the grand jury has finished up going through its appointed motions
in the whitewashing of Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed an
unarmed teenage boy in Ferguson Missouri, officers throughout the United States
have been proclaiming their solidarity with the killer cop by putting out the
logo, “I am Darren Wilson.” It seems like an odd point of pride. Are they also
confessing—perhaps boasting—of the unarmed civilians they’ve killed? Or
announcing their intention of killing unarmed civilians in the future? Or
asserting their right to open fire on random members of the public? Or what?
I’ve got to say that I’m not really interested in what was
going through Darren Wilson’s mind at the time of the incident, or what exact
events led up to it. I’m not interested in whether the victim was a strong-arm
robber or a model college-bound student. I’ll leave it to others to wade through
the thousand pages of whitewash produced by the world’s worst stage-conjurer.
(I can see the wires, goddamn it!) I don’t care that the laws of Missouri
apparently allow an officer to use lethal force to effect an arrest. This
killing shouldn’t have happened. It
is a law-enforcement failure.
The focus shouldn’t be on Darren Wilson at all. The focus should
be on reforming the Missouri systems—legal and otherwise—that allowed things to
come to this pass.
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