Jacob Sullum Explains Why Michael Brown’s Killer Would Have Been Acquitted

On Monday a grand jury rejected criminal charges
against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed
Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, in Ferguson, Missouri,
last summer. Given the contested circumstances of Brown’s death,
says Jacob Sullum, it is understandable that many people were
dismayed by the grand jury’s decision. But if Wilson had been
indicted, Sullum argues, he almost certainly would have been
acquitted, precisely because important details of his deadly
encounter with Brown are hard to pin down.

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