Today in Saint Louis, around 100 people demonstrated in support of Darren Wilson, the officer who gunned down Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The mostly white crowd gathered at a local watering hole popular with police, held signs and raised money for Wilson. Many suggested Wilson was the victim of a rush to judgement, and some insisted the episode had nothing to do with race, but rather with a police officer doing his job, as evidenced by this gem:
“They are saying it’s murder because a white officer killed a black man,” said Karen Kennedy, who attended the rally with her daughter Katie. “I don’t know where that comes from."
Despite the troubling implications of supporting a police officer who gunned down an unarmed teenager with six bullets, all was relatively peaceful.
And then came the moment. A counter protest developed in response to the gathering of Wilson supporters, and many of them began chanting, "Hands up, don't shoot," a reference to the fact that, according to both witnesses and an autopsy, Brown had his hand raised in the air when he was shot.
In response? Wilson's supporters began chanting, "Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!"
are you seeing the reasoning behind Ferguson citizens having no reason to trust those in power to come to a honest decision when they are celebrating the death and fund raising for it's defense while all being White and thought no more respect for the murdered then to leave them in the street as a lesson??? or pride in what one of them had just done if there were ever a case that the federal gov't should take over now you see one.
YUP NO RACIAL DEVIDE THERE, YA BETCHA!
