Michael Brown was wrong for stealing from the liquor store but he did not deserve to get killed by Officer Darren Wilson and Wilson should have been indicted. Ideally in America everyone is innocent until proven guilty and the punishment should fit the crime. However as events keep unfolding in today’s society, it seems like a persons punishment is not based on the crime they commit but instead the color of their skin.
Darren Wilson the police officer who killed Brown gave his testimony last Monday. Wilson claimed that he was in his car and heard on his radio that someone just stole some cigarettes from a liquor store and the suspect was wearing a black shirt. Wilson said he wasn’t even going to respond to the call because there were officers who were already on it.
A while later Wilson noticed Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson walking in the middle of the street. Wilson asked the two men to use the sidewalk and After a few minutes they all began to argue. That is when Wilson noticed the cigarettes and that Johnson matched the description of the suspect.
Wilson took action and tried apprehend the men. Brown gave the cigarettes to Johnson and Johnson took off. As the situation escalated, Wilson and brown started fighting. Wilson said he felt like a 5 year old fighting the hulk. Since Wilson was so scared, he shot Brown six times.
I saw the photos of Wilson after their fight and it did not look like fought “the Hulk”. He didn’t have any cuts, scrapes, or bruises on his face. He only had red marks. You would think that if Wilson fought someone like the Hulk he would have had injuries that were more severe.
At the end of the day the jury sympathized with Wilson and he wasn’t indicted. The fact that Wilson wasn’t even indicted is appalling especially when people like Dawon Gore was charged with a felony.
Dawon and Wilson have a lot in common, they are both police officers and they even had the same prosecutor, Bob McCullough. Their only difference was the color of their skin and the penalties for their alleged crime.
Unlike Wilson, Dawon didn’t kill anyone instead he hit an unarmed man on his hand during a discrepancy the two had. Yet Dawon was charged with a felony.
Okay let’s compare the two, Officer Wilson a white officer shot and killed Michael Brown and he was set free. Officer Dawon Gore a black officer, hit a man on the hand with a baton and was charged with a felony.
Ferguson hasn’t been the only case we see a double standard. In February of 2012, Miami man George Zimmerman shot and killed 17 year old Trayvon Martin who was unarmed. Zimmerman was presumed innocent.
In 2012 Marissa Alexander an African American woman was convicted and could face up to 20 years in prison for firing warning shots at her abusive husband. Recently she was brought in for a retrial and now could face 60 years in prison. In Alexander’s case no one was killed or injured, yet she faces a decades of jail time. If that’s not a double standard I don’t know what is.
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