The Rude Pundit: In Brief: Something Else That's Wrong with Darren Wilson's Story of the Shooting...

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17. Lots of little things wrong

http://gawker.com/fuck-darren-wilson-i-posted-the-below-elsewhere-but-i-1663420737

Fuck Darren Wilson. I posted the below elsewhere, but I think it's worth saying again.

Amongst other problems, one more with this piece of shit Wilson is that he doesn't recognize all of his idiotic actions that led to this mess. I sure as hell hope he wasn't trained to handle a crisis this poorly, because he really did royally fuck up his plan of attack. To recap:

1.

He hassled a pair of youths for walking in the street.

2.

He accosted them while at a numerical disadvantage, to say nothing of Brown's larger size, in a way that clearly did not de-escalate the situation.

3.

He accosted them at a distance so sufficiently close that it allowed one of them to (allegedly) assault him with their bare hands.

4.

He accosted them in such a way (seated, in a vehicle, with the window down) that left him at a clear physical disadvantage with no desirable recourse if the exchange turned physical.

5.

He attempted to fight off and/or shoot Brown at the vehicle instead of using his cruiser's mobility to put distance between himself and the alleged perpetrator, which would've allowed himself both time and space to regroup and call backup as needed.

6.

He got out of the cruiser (at that point a relatively safe position, given Brown's flight) to pursue his alleged assailant, who it is agreed had turned his back to flee and had (I believe) already been shot, and did so prior to calling for backup from other units.

7.

Finally: He shot an unarmed Brown (who was either surrendering or charging) depending on who you believe.

8.

He did all of this in less than 60 seconds.

If the Ferguson PD is training its officers to make this litany of errors, they really are a shitshow of incompetence. My overall point: even if you believe this douchebag is innocent of casual racism, an ego-driven power trip, and spinning a web of lies to wash his hands of Brown's unjustifiable homocide (as I suspect him of), you must at the very least admit this guy's a fucking idiot and a shitty cop with no gift for strategy, a complete inability to properly evaluate risk and how to mitigate it, no talent for de-escalating a tense situation, and no capability to recognize how his own actions result in unfortunate outcomes. A casual moron like this—somebody incapable of calmly, rationally evaluating the hand he's been dealt, and making the most of it before charging headlong into the fray like Pickett at Gettysburg—is exactly not the sort of person who should be a cop entrusted with a gun and legal authority. They're just too stupid not to fuck it up.