To be honest I expected an indictment to come down for Darren Wilson and I'm very disappointed that it didn't. I made a point of not getting too deeply involved with Ferguson because it became very emotional and I was afraid I'd get too swept up into it. The problem with impassioned cases like this is when you've taken a side, you become ignorant of anything else that contradicts your viewpoint. This happens whether you're Republican or Democrat, man or woman, majority or minority, American or non-American. When I was younger I was very strongly anti-Bush. I still am, but my arguments nowadays I hope have more consideration and thought to them than me just foaming in rage and parroting whatever I heard that's convenient for my opinion.

Not knowing Wilson or Brown personally, I honestly can't say if Wilson is the type of person to shoot a person who isn't attacking him, nor if Brown is the type of person to attack a police officer. Witnesses say Brown wasn't, but witnesses have been proven to be wrong before. I've heard there's forensic evidence proving Wilson's story wrong, but my sources are from people who are definitely pro-Brown and I'm ashamed to say I didn't follow up on it myself. That's actually why I really wanted an indictment: All the evidence would've been laid on the table. The prosecutors and defense could've spun it the way they wanted, but at least it would've been out there in a way that's beyond the noise of everyone else who's angry and upset.

Is there a problem with unarmed black men being shot by police officers? Of course there is and we need to address and stop this from happening. Whether this is an instance of that I have no idea. I wasn't there and I haven't seen all the evidence. What I have seen is how Ferguson treated the protestors, and that I can easily condemn. It was mismanaged, despicable, and overblown. As rowdy as they may have been, there's no excuse to bring in that much artillery and weaponry. In fact, the police shouldn't have that at all, and I'm worried the same tactics will be used as protestors gather again. I was hoping Ferguson would open up a movement to demilitarize police at least if stopping the killing of black males wasn't going to go anywhere, but unfortunately it only allowed a small debate that faded away as the news cycle moved onto the Ukraine, the war in the Gaza Strip, ISIS, Ebola, the elections...

An indictment would've helped both sides because if he did kill Brown unjustly, justice would've been served. And if he didn't, he could cut through the disinformation to prove his innocence. I can see the argument here that you don't want officers second-guessing in the heat of the moment whether their actions could land them in court, but here I think there's enough out there to say we need to take a closer look at it. And really officers need to fucking think about their actions because this has happened too many times.