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In reply to the discussion: Darren Wilson to ABC News: I Have a Clean Conscience [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)12. So it's just a choice between black/white, hot/cold, life/death?
No shades of grey, no other nuanced choices at all? The fact that he had a whole range of non-lethal choices at hand from a baton or mace, not to mention the running police car he was sitting in, plus his professional training and many years of experience... when does any of that stuff come into play?
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Yep. I know veterans who still feel horrible decades later about shooting people...
hunter
Nov 2014
#22
And this is precisely why he should've been charged & convicted of 1st degree murder.
baldguy
Nov 2014
#17
I'm he does.. fucking sociopaths don't have a twinge of conscience. Not one word to the Browns. :(
Cha
Nov 2014
#20
Mr. Wilson should find another line of work. He does not possess the mental faculties needed
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2014
#35