Darren Wilson's Side of the Story

[sheltiedave]

Merry, the original investigation found no civil rights violations specific to Brown's case. However, they had no problem whatsoever finding all sorts of violations with regard to the police force practices and debtors' prison civil right violations across the board.

That is the difference between the folks who like to pontificate on these matters from outside the area. They have absolutely no idea what is going on in other cases, how the PDs are being run, how various communities are using their police departments to put the squeeze on folks, and thus they have been totally surprised and caught out by what has transpired.

Those of us who are local are neither surprised nor caught out by the vehemence of the reaction, and we know and understand the depth and breadth of the hatred these practices have sown in our local communities. It is not about entitlement, it is about basic civil rights.

We have not created a social contract with our police departments and judicial systems, only to see our basic civil rights removed, and access to an unconstrained adversarial judicial system abrogated. These unilateral evolutions, undertaken without our informed consent, has altered our preliminary social contract without any ability to engage in any significant and valued societal feedback.

Why have we had building burned, and businesses destroyed, in St. Louis? Why have we had commissions formed to review events in Ferguson? Why is a citizens' police review board being formed in St. Louis city? Why has McCulloch decided that he is not going to run for another term as County Prosecutor. Why did Dee Joyce, the city circuit attorney, have to apologize to a private citizen for being arrested for a burglary he did not commit, and reprimand St. Louis City Police Department, for their FUBAR investigation? Why do St. Louis City police feel comfortable in turning off their car cameras in the middle of an arrest scene? All because the institutions that are supposed to have an open and constructive ongoing dialogue with the citizens they govern, and maintain certain basic standards amongst their employees, though governance, policing, and holding judgement on have FAILED in their mission, both by omission and by deliberate commission.