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The urban legend being crafted around the Ferguson, Missouri, shooting ofMichael Brown is amazing to watch from a folklore perspective, as activistssanitize and elevate Michael Brown, while simultaneously demonizing DarrenWilson, the officer who shot Brown.
As this mythology is being crafted, expectations are also being woven intothe story. Among the "lessons" being offered are insinuations that policetreat minorities unfairly and that police are quicker to fire upon them thatthey are other races, and that police officers will shoot at minoritiesmercilessly, far beyond the number of shots needed to resolve the conflict.
None of these assertions appear to be true, despite their acceptance asconventional wisdom in some circles.
Recent studies have shown that the opposite is in fact true, and that bothwhite and black officers are actually quicker to fire on white suspects thanblack suspects, even though data suggests that black suspects are morelikely to open fire on police.
In fact, if last night's shooting occurred as claimed with Myers openingfire on the officer, then it becomes another data point suggesting that thestudy is correct.
The "rest of the story" of last night's shooting appears to be thatVonderrit Myers's "sandwich" was manufactured by Ruger, and that it firedthree shots at the officer before it jammed. That apparent reality isirrelevant to those crafting the mythology, of course. Myers's death isalready being woven into the folklore of those seeking "social justice" inthe Ferguson/St. Louis area, where anger, fear, and hate has long agosupplanted reason.
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