Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, Michael Brown

Recently the grand jury found no charges for Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18 year old Michael Brown, and this has fueled violence, protests, and a debate about whether the Ferguson police officer feared for his life. An 18 year old man is dead an that is tragic, but the grand jury went over all of the evidence in the case and determined that officer Darren Wilson was justified in using deadly force. Witnesses who saw what happened were conflicted, and 3 different autopsies did not clarify things as much as the jurors would have liked. There is no evidence that Brown had his hands raised in surrender when he was shot, in fact some of the witnesses corroborated the testimony of Darren Wilson that the teenager was charging him.

The forensic evidence in the Michael Brown case shows that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot Brown while still seated in the police vehicle after Brown came into the side window and assaulted Wilson. There were witnesses to this altercation who have stated that Michael Brown was the initial aggressor in the confrontation. There is also evidence that the teen had stolen cigars from a nearby convenience store, and surveillance footage from the store shows the teen pushing the clerk around. Many are trying to portray the troubled teen as a boy scout who was an angel and the facts show that this is not true. Any person, regardless of color or age, should expect to be shot when assaulting a police officer.