Darren Wilson Deserves Apology In Aftermath Of Verdict [Op-Ed]

In August, Darren Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer killed teenage robbery suspect Michael Brown in a shooting after being struck twice in the face and charged by the youth. Brown and Wilson were the same height (6’4?), but Brown outweighed the officer by 80 pounds and understandably posed a threat that prompted Wilson to fire the fatal shots.

Despite all the hearsay and the media’s false reports of the last few months, these are the facts as released by prosecutors and demonstrated in the medical report. While some left-wing bloggers like Piers Morgan and this guy at Vox are already doubling down on their refusal to acknowledge the evidence, these are the undisputed facts. This is the information that both black and white grand jurors reviewed and agreed upon and what the credible eyewitness accounts from African-American witnesses have plainly stated.

So now the question remains: at what point does the credible news media and the current slate of Civil Rights leaders issue Darren Wilson an apology?

Do they wait until the NPR analysis is done? Here’s an excerpt.

“There are two findings of major importance: First, the autopsy found that Michael Brown was never shot in the back, as some early witnesses claimed.

“Second, they found Brown’s blood inside the police car and on Wilson’s gun. This implies that there was close-range contact as Wilson alleges.”

The rule of law was fairly applied, and it exonerated Officer Wilson — a man who can no longer pursue his career with the Ferguson police department, by the way, because the unfair spectacle created by my peers in the media and leaders like Al Sharpton have made it impossible.

Wilson was victimized, tried, and convicted in the court of public opinion. It was done with rumor-mongering, discredited eyewitnesses, and a news media/Civil Rights movement that was only too eager to fight a race war over something that didn’t involve race in the slightest.

Now that Wilson has been exonerated, protesters and rioters have turned the city into a war zone. They’re destroying their own neighborhoods in a misguided and befuddling attempt to prove they’ve been unfairly targeted by the police as violent.

Wrap your mind around that logic.

And rather than issue an apology to Darren Wilson and heavily condemn the violence, Al Sharpton and attorneys for Michael Brown’s parents are going all-in, issuing very dismissive “condemnations” of the violence while focusing the brunt of their attention on what happened in August, when a young man caught on video in a strong-arm robbery attacked a police officer for no good reason and lost his life as a result.

And the media, and white guilt liberals, are listening to it instead of actually reviewing that aforementioned evidence.

What kind of society do we live in where a prosecutor can release evidence that clearly exonerates a police officer who acted in self-defense, a multiracial grand jury finds this to be true and judges accordingly, and yet people who don’t like the outcome continue to perpetuate news stories and misinformation that relies on their own false narrative rather than what actually happened?

I guess that’s the America of the 21st Century. Might as well accept it. Anyhow, Darren Wilson is owed an apology, one that will never come. He’ll have to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder for doing his job, and about half the country is fine with that for some reason.

But know this.

If you’re one of the people still calling for the officer’s head — if you sympathize with the rioters and looters — if you want there to be federal charges — if you make excuses for the Michael Browns of the world instead of standing up for the Darren Wilsons — then the next time an officer fears for his life and considers deadly force, what happens next will be on your head because you are encouraging and perpetuating the stereotype of an unusually violent culture.

What do you think, readers? Is Darren Wilson owed an apology for what he’s going through in the aftermath of Monday night’s verdict?