If Darren Wilson is innocent, why are so many white people preparing for war?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

153. Conservative whites fear the reaction of an enraged black populace if the Grand Jury fails to indict

They are imagining a rioting and looting event on par with the Rodney King decision. The conservative media has told them that the police and National Guard will be overwhelmed, and inferred that the black President won't be there to help them. The phrase I've read is along the lines of, "if you've failed to arm yourself for this event, you have only yourself to blame if you get hurt/killed." To attempt to guarantee that this is how it will play out, campaigns like #pantsupdontloot have been put out in the media.

These conservative whites who are buying the guns don't think Wilson did anything wrong. On the contrary -- they have bought into the narrative that Brown stole from a c-store; roughed up a clerk; and was shot subsequent to assaulting an officer. In their world, the liberal media has whipped the black population of Ferguson up into a frenzy, and they will be incited to riot when the facts come out, and the indictment they'd been led to believe would come fails to materialize.

I hear what you're saying in the OP, but you are incorrect. They think Wilson is innocent.


Anticipating your next question: why is Wilson resigning? Not out of guilt, but because he knows he's a marked man in Ferguson. He'll end up on a small town PD in Idaho.