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Officals Brace Ferguson For Exoneration Of Officer
‘I would like to see this come to a just conclusion, whatever that is’
WND
Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson
FERGUSON, Mo. – As darkness fell Thursday night, the few blocks of this St. Louis suburb that became the scene of nightly, often violent protests was calm as public officials milled about, assuring residents parallel investigations would reveal the circumstances of the fatal shooting of black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer.
It appeared many of the public figures were bracing the community for the possibility that Officer Darren Wilson would not be charged with murder as evidence continued to mount that he was attacked and severely beaten by Brown only minutes after the teen robbed a convenience store Aug. 9.
A St. Louis County Police Department officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told WND that department reports confirmed Wilson suffered a broken eye socket in a struggle with Brown before the shooting.
“For Michael Brown to fight the police officer and try to take his gun away and then to say, ‘Don’t shoot me,’ that’s resisting arrest, and it’s a felony,” he said. “All you have to do is touch the officer’s gun and you’ve committed a felony.”
As darkness settled in, the crowd grew to about one or two thousand people, but the atmosphere remained relaxed as State Highway Patrol troopers restricted motor traffic on West Florissant and kept pedestrians off the road. But police allowed access to the sidewalks, and a few peaceful protesters marched and chanted.
On the corner of West Florissant Avenue and Canfield Drive, near the site of the shooting, CNN’s Anderson Cooper conducted a live television broadcast from a curbside studio.
Seeking ‘a just conclusion’
WND interviewed several prominent public figures walking about the crowd Thursday evening. They largely were there to deliver a calming message, not that a black teen was an innocent victim of a white police officer, but that the grand jury and Eric Holder’s Department of Justice will uncover the truth of what happened in the shooting incident two weeks ago.
Reposted with permission
