Race relations kept in an uproar

Race relations kept in an uproar

Kudos to the grand jury in Ferguson. Mo. They listened to all the witnesses and evidence presented to them and got it right that Darren Wilson should not be indicted.

Michael Brown was a defiant angry black 18-year-old who had just robbed a convenience store and then defied the cop about getting out of the street and then went on to attack that cop, Darren Wilson, in his vehicle, because it seems that Brown didn't like authority telling him what to do.

Whether you agree or not, Michael Brown brought on his own demise by his bad decisions and behavior that August night in Ferguson, Mo., starting with the robbery, to his attack on the cop in his car and then turning and charging the cop so that Wilson felt threatened to defend himself against an angry Michael Brown.

The witnesses proved Brown's bad behavior on that night and the grand jury investigation of the witnesses accounts were true to the autopsy evidence presented to them. Darren Wilson was doing his job as a cop and Michael Brown defied this cop to stop and instead Brown turned back toward Wilson and charged at him.

Dr. Martin Luther King must be turning over in his grave over the violence and terrible destruction caused in Ferguson by the correct outcome of the grand jury investigation when he fought and died for nonviolent restraint during protests. It would seem that he died in vain for his long hard struggle of nonviolent behavior.

Some angry people still want to keep race relations in America in an uproar and we need to change that thinking and behavior.

Judy Olsen

Elgin