Looking at the social media posts it seems like moderates/the middle along with conservatives are siding with the Officer. The left might of actually done a disfavor to itself by its constant whitewashing of Michael Brown into a saint.
Nobody has claimed him to be a saint, but he's not some aggressive "demon" that he's been made out to be. And regardless of his attitude, personality, and history, none of that would in any way justify getting shot multiple times.
I was dismissive of Ferguson
until I looked at the evidence. There's no way that Wilson's account is "most probable". His entire testimony reads like a series of contrived and improbable nonsense. He had no basis to reasonable use his firearm and the entire account falls apart when you consider the body was located a good fifty yards further away from his vehicle than his sworn statement implies.
Instead of arguing what is probable or not, why not leave that to an actual court, with an actual prosecutor, following actual court procedure? That's the only sound way we can determine whether the killer's own account is in any way plausible.
You mean the riot that Ferguson police almost certainly staged, so they could be sure that public opinion would be on their side after their sham of a grand jury decision was announced? They waited until night time for the verdict to ensure prime time coverage, and announced it well ahead of time so a good crowd would be there. They riled the crowd up by blasting them all with tear gas at the slightest hint of trouble, and then every officer fell back to "protect the police station". They let the riots run wild throughout the city without using any of that fancy military-grade hardware they're now infamous for owning. They even declined to escort firemen to burning buildings- because why put them out when it makes such great TV?
Nobody has defended the riots at all, merely pointed out that it was a small fraction of the people who were protesting peacefully. But Wilson apologists point to the riot as if it somehow justifies the verdict, even though it's entirely irrelevant to the injustice that occurred. An 18 year old boy's killer is free, never even forced to face a trial, because of a crooked small town lawyer who fixed the grand jury by arguing against his own case he was supposed to be prosecuting.
