The Michael Brown tragedy has garnered a lot of attention in the media recently highlighted by the recent County Court decision to not indict the lone officer who did the shooting which caused the death of Micheal Brown.
Now after more information of the event has been released openly to the public, we can evaluate upon are self in are own opinion toward was the law handed out in this particular event proportionately fair or to a professional standard ?
I tend to think not and my reasons to think so is as follows ....
Firstly and probably most importantly was toward the fact the MB was unarmed at the time during his thievery at the convenience store, as well during the abrupt altercation with officer Wilson at his police vehicle.
In most modern policing activity, there is an established protocol to wait for assistance upon coming into a situation when you come upon an individual or a group of individuals that is being extremely aggressive and resistant to letting the police conduct their given duty as law officers, in that you are told to wait for assistance.
The reason for this is to make sure the arrest of these suspected law breakers can be successful in their apprehension and containment as to heed their posible escape and further to make sure the conducting officers are not harmed in the entailing process.
This unfortunately didn't happen with the MB incident and the resulting outcome was a tragedy for both MB the intoxicated unlawful perpetrator and officer Daren Wilson who is going to have to live with for the rest of his life, ever more so now that his face has been openly exposed in the media all throughout North America and elsewhere around the world.
Should he have waited for back up to arrive at the scene being that he had a extremely aggressive out of control individual who obviously had no particular respect for the law ?
I'm sure most law offerers would say he should kept eye contact and perhaps tailed the person with the vehicle he had, when assistance arrived then follow through on arrest and apprehension.
The reason why Tasers were issued to police officers was for them to use them on individuals who were being non compliant on being contained or arrested.
During Daren Wilson's testimony in court he was asked why he didn't Taser MB and his reply under oath was that he thought they were too big and bulky to carry on his utility belt. The detachment did have Tasers at their disposal but some of the officers such as Wilson didn't carry them .
If Wilson had waited for back up assistance, it would be most likely that the use of a Taser would have been suggested among the attending officers .
It would be a good assumption after all the gathered information in this particular case, that officers in this select force were reminded to wait for back up assistance to arrive when its deemed that you have a highly uncontrolled citizen resisting arrest.
After the very aggressive altercation at the police vehicle, it should have been clearly realized by officer Wilson that this guy wasn't going to cooperate peacefully and was uncontrollably violent as well.
There is no question that MB should have been brought before a court and been judged in due process of the law and accordingly penalized for his behavior that day.
I do question to whether the law of the land was duly executed in a fair and proportionate manner toward him though.
The other regrettable aspect to this case is that since there was a No Indict judgment handed down upon officer Wilson, race relations in Missouri have taken a turn for the worst and the rippling effect is being felt all throughout the United States.