What do you think really happened in Ferguson?

[Chris Hu]

SvennoJ said:
Human ego mixed with deadly weapons.

On one side a cop, stressful, dangerous, low paying job in a place where most people hate you.
On the other side, teenagers brought up to distrust and disrespect law enforcement.

Cop sees kids jaywalking, tells them off. Kids go, wtf you kidding me, I'll walk the f where I want to. Cop has had enough of the attitude, won't let it slip. Kids won't move, you think you're tough get the f out of my street. Struggle ensues, somehow gun gets involved, maybe the cop tries to grab it to get the kid to back off, maybe the kid grabs for it, it goes off. Adrenaline and rage take over.

Doesn't excuse the cop. He should have had better training to control his emotions and not follow through with a kill.

Low paying most cops make a lot more money then the averge citizen and lets not even talk about sheriffs and state troopers those guys make a insane amount of money.  On top of that its not that stressful either since you can always call for back up and if you really can't cut it in the streets you can always get a desk job eventually most of the time.