soot
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Didn't the right wing echo chamber put forth that his entire eye socket was crushed and broken?
Ummm...
I dunno.
I don't listen to too much partisan news one way or the other so if that's what folks were saying I prolly wouldn't be the guy to ask.
It wouldn't really surprise me if they did though, right?
All and still, based on that image and other evidence I've seen since it's been made public, as well as listening to Wilson interviewed in the news, I'm pretty comfortable with the outcome.
I guess there's a part of me that would have liked to see a trial for political reasons, but if I put myself in the accused shoes (in general, as an alleged whatever, not necessarily under his exact, specific circumstances) I wouldn't want a grand jury indicting me simply for political reasons so I can't really find fault with the way things developed.
At the end of the day the prosecutor didn't even have to recommend that it go to a grand jury. It looks like, based on the evidence, it would have been perfectly reasonable for the prosecutor to never even have sought the indictment. So I guess letting the grand jury look at the evidence was a sort of "middle ground" approach that cost the taxpayer a little bit of money, but also gave Brown's family the benefit of the doubt.
I'm not in the camp that claims that police brutality doesn't exist, or that African Americans only get what they deserve, or any of that. But in this case it seems pretty clear that the rioting horde is wrong, that Brown was guilty as sin, and that he earned every last on of the bullets that were fired at him.