The Justice Department jumped in and along with several members of the Obama Administration and celebrities, to attack the Ferguson Police Officer who shot and killed an 18 year old in some sort of a disturbance.
The investigation is continuing and details have been slow to come out. The information that has come out, mostly from the victims side, has been proven to be very unreliable and in many cases proven false.
First the report was that the Officer shot the man, Michael Brown, while he was running away. However after autopsy reports came out that he was shot multiple times, all in the front, the story changed.
He then was standing with his hands up and the Officer just shot him. I found that to be odd since several of the shots where to the arms. I am not sure how good of a shot the Officer was or why he would just shoot up at the arms that were supposedly in the air.
Then reports came out that the Officer was taken to the hospital for injuries he sustained in an altercation with the victim.
The story then changed to, there was an altercation with between the victim and the officer where the victim started punching the officer while the officer was in his car.
The Officer sustained severe damage to his face in the altercation.
Then a report came out that there was a struggle for the Officers gun. The Victims side denied that, however later reports came out that the Victims fingerprint was found on the gun.
I am not sure that with all of this information and the changing of information along with the slow leak of information coming out, how anyone can honestly pick a side in this. Until a full report is released I am not sure how anyone can judge one side or the other.
Now the Justice Department has announced that they are going to look into racial allegations against the Ferguson Police Department. That is just what needs to happen.
Are you kidding me? How about coming clean on the true events of the incident first so that it can be transparent about what happen. If the Officer did something wrong, hold him accountable. If the Officer was justified, then say so. Don't widen the investigation.
I don't think based on the information that I have seen that anyone outside of the people involved in the actual investigation really knows what happens. That and maybe the witnesses. I can not say who is at fault or if it was a combination of events and people at fault. Could the Officer have been wrong? Absolutely. Could the Victim have escalated the events that took place? Absolutely. At this juncture I don't think we on the outside looking in can judge either one.
For the Justice Department to widen the investigation to include racism by the Department only makes a bad situation much worse.
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