Officer Darren Wilson gets married to fellow Ferguson cop

[haele]

77. The "close to retirement" angle is what struck me.

Most patrol officers I know retire around 40/45 as they start breaking down physically. The ones that hang on are usually desk jockeys, investigators, or sergants/officers. He's come into a lot of money, but his options for a future have become limited due to his poor judgement, even though he's probably going to parlay his minor fringe celebrity status into some sort of income stream, because there's always angry, aggressive racist jerks that are looking for a messiah to lead them into battle against FEMA and Homeland Security during the ever-threatening armeggedon/dystopia fantasy that fills their empty hours.
The upside for her is that: 1) he's still in the plyable stage of maturity (if he ever grows out of it) and will probably defer to her knowledge and experiance; 2) he's a minor celebrity in the fringe circles that make up much of the culture of the modern militarized US policing and currently has at least a million dollars on hand that they can spend on joint assets that a civil trial can't force them to pay back to the family of the victim of his ; and 3) he's young, tall, virile, and "cute" in a white supremisist sort of way, if that's her cultural bias.

With similar experiance and probable cultural background (I assume they both come from a similar family dynamic and geographic location growing up), the age difference is not extreme.

For example, I'm 8 years older than Laz, but we are both ex-military - well, if you consider the Air Force experiance similar to the Navy experiance - and have similar tastes and interests, raised by parents of the similar educational background and values - even if we didn't have the same generational experiance or even personal experiances - he was married previously and I barely dated until I met him.

Now, when it comes to snark; hey, they both know which side their bread can be buttered on. I doubt this is love...

Haele