What do you think went through Officer Wilson's mind as he gunned down unarmed Michael Brown?

[MoonRiver]

24 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Deep seated racial hatred which took over his rational thinking process
	14 (58%)
	Panic, believing he was about to be attacked
	3 (13%)
	Cool and collected as he carried out a routine police action, i.e. shoot and ask questions later
	0 (0%)
	Other
	7 (29%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[WinkyDink]

1. Fear and loathing in Missouri.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. I wonder what's for dinner? BAM! BAM!

Maybe fried chicken? BAM! Shit, he's still BAM moving.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. I'm a Roman soldier .

[bravenak]

4. "You better mind me when I tell you what to do!!!

What did you say? You're almost home? You got a smart mouth boy! I'll teach you a lesson, come here! Oh, are you resisting my attempt to assault you? I'll fix you! *gets out of car* Get back over here right now boy! Bam! You running? Bam! I don't give a crap if your hands are up! Bam! Bam! Bang! Better finish this animal off! Bam! Bam!"

"I'll just say he was grabbing my gun, nobody will care. Hell, millions will defend me!"

[MoonRiver]

7. Wonder if he would have had the same thoughts if Mike had been white.

[bravenak]

11. I don't think so.

[abelenkpe]

22. Probably

But he might not have acted on those same thoughts so easily. Does that make sense?

[ecstatic]

28. The initial confrontation would NOT have occurred; however, if he somehow

ended up in a confrontation with a white guy, it's possible that the same uncontrolled anger and rage would have taken over.

[abelenkpe]

21. Yep

Thats what I think he thought, too.

[IcyPeas]

5. what was it zimmerman said?

... these punks.... they always get away with it.

[SaltyBro]

6. He is a racist

having racist thoughts.

[HereSince1628]

8. Not sure it was a thought composed of words...

I can't know, but I suspect it was mostly non-verbal emotions.

Imagining his homicidal reaction was about response to those emotions rather than obvious threats posed by MB with his hands in the air is the only way I can wrap my brain around it.

[avebury]

9. He was pissed off because he got disrepected by what were

in his mind punk black kids.

[bravenak]

12. I knew you'd come.

The question is why?

[FarPoint]

26. Who was it?

[bravenak]

27. I think it was my name removed from the day before yesterday.

Same kinda tone to it.

[countingbluecars]

15. Why hasn't there

been an investigation yet? And BTW we "libs" don't need the media to tell us what to think. You Fox news viewers do.

[MohRokTah]

16. This is what you choose as a first post here?

[NaturalHigh]

13. Other...

as in "I don't know." How could anyone here possibly know what went through his mind?

[pipoman]

19. Some never tire of being wrong or making uniformed decisions

[pipoman]

14. Is there anyone who actually knows Wilson

Who has stated he has a racist history?

[Solomon]

17. Realizing he shot the boy for no good reason

he decided Brown's life is wasn't worth losing his job for so he finished him off.

[Pholus]

18. Sadly I agree with this analysis the most.

Always heard my local gun toting 2nd amendment "folks" spewing this common wisdom that if you shoot someone do it anyway you can -- including in the back -- and then when they're down roll them over and shoot them again to make sure they're dead. "The cops won't question you about it" they'd say. "You won't end up in court for years" was the other half of it.

Certainly the circumstances here seem to indicate some thought that a single version of events would be much neater than two versions....

[randome]

24. I agree.

I think it may have also been horror that he shot him in the first place. Some people react to horror by trying to make it 'go away'.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Iggo]

20. "YES! FINALLY! YES!"

[hatrack]

23. Nothing - just the white noise of roid rage

nt

[ecstatic]

25. Uncontrolled anger, rage, temper, power trip

Unfortunately, a lot of cops have this trait.

[el_bryanto]

29. Why ask for uniformed opinions when we can just use the PastThoughtMetron 2000

and know for sure.

You guys did send away for your PastThoughtMetron 2000, didn't you? "You can know what anybody at any point in history was thinking or your money back (assuming you can find us, which you can't)." I bought two - one for the home and one for the office.

Bryant

[gordianot]

33. I wonder about current thoughts.

Even if he has no regrets for killing an 18 year old man child he has placed his fellow officers in jeapordy. The images on television should burn the soul for even the most deviant self centered Sociopath. What have I done?

[el_bryanto]

35. Well as far as that goes, it seems like they are going to prep him for the media

Regardless of what he should feel, or what he might actually feel, his police chief clearly feels like this was totally justified (in fact he somehow feels like they are showing restraint) so he will be pushed onto a script, and if the police chief isn't sure he can stick to it he will be kept off stage as much as possible.

Bryant

[ReRe]

30. "Opposition Research"...

... is going to tell us how his mind works. I hope, while they dally around and let him run around on his last fling, that that is being done and has been done since the 9th. When will info on him come trickling out, after they arrest him?

[stevenleser]

31. Here is an example of the kind of thinking going through his head

[Trekologer]

32. "Good thing my department was too cheap to install the dash cameras"

Ferguson PD owns dashboard cameras, but they aren’t installed

[Dustlawyer]

34. Cops in S.E. Texas call anyone they believe to be low class a "Scrote", short for scrotum I guess.

This thinking of poor American citizens as people less deserving of respect, or no respect at all is pervasive. This is not necessarily a racists moniker, they apply it to poor whites and people who they perceive as giving them a hard time. We are all potential Scrotes if we question them at all. It is definitely an "us against them" mentality. It is dehumanizing at a minimum and leads to wrongful prosecutions, abuse, and sometimes, unnecessary deaths!
It is born of tolerance of this behavior by all in the law enforcement field, as their is no one teaching them any different. They all rise up through the ranks having to deal with the public when we are not at our best for sure. The instructors have had to go through this too and see nothing wrong with it. They get lied to and abused so much that this is their natural reaction. I am not defending it at all, just saying where it comes from and why they (law enforcement leaders and instructors) don't say/do anything about it.
The cops know that their co-workers feel the same way and will back them up!

[Liberal_from_va34]

36. I'm pretty sure Wilson was giddy at the thought of killing him.

After all, to him, poor Michael was just another "good-for-nothing darkie". What a sick bastard. I hope he gets canned from his job over this.

[MoonRiver]

39. I hope he gets a lot more than canned, as in a murder conviction.

[VanGoghRocks]

37. "Just another poor boy off to fight a rich man's war" ~Steve Earle

[MineralMan]

38. I have no idea what he was thinking. However,

whatever it was was very, very wrong.

[BronxBoy]

40. Who gives a shit??????

If he was poor and Black and shot a White storekeeper to death, do you really think people would be asking what was in his mind?????