n his testimony, Officer Darren Wilson, the man who shot Michael Brown, said of the victim that it look[ed] like a demon. That is, not only was Brown a demon, but an it. Granted, Wilson may have misspoken. He probably meant he instead of it. But, this is a man who has sworn to protect the lives of his fellow citizens. He has also had weeks to receive the finest media training available. This was, to put it neutrally, a very delicate case. If it did not occur to him or his handlers that referring to a dead boy as it, a demon, or the threat in public was a bad idea, does that not suggest that perhaps something might be wrong with the way Ferguson police interact with the citizenry? But none of this matters, because Michael Brown was not a person. He was a demon, and apparently, a comic book character.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 20:56:44 +0000