To the editor:

On Wednesday, Nov. 26, the mother of Michael Brown declared “I am sure that Officer Wilson wanted to kill someone.” Where did she get this notion, she never met Officer Wilson. Michael Brown’s step-father is being investigated that he started a riot when he demonstrated and declared “burn this b### down.” He should have been arrested. Why does the black community see police addressing a black crime different than the actual facts, and then will not accept truth? There seems to be no accountability.

Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal wrote on the same day (WSJ Nov. 26, Opinion):

“We now know that Michael Brown was much more of a menace than a martyr, but that won’t stop liberals from pushing an anti-police narrative that harms the black poor in the name of helping them”

It is a fact, that Michael Brown robbed a store, attacked a white police officer and was shot dead while resisting arrest. The conclusion of the grand jury brought no charges against the officer after considering all the physical evidence, along with eyewitness accounts from blacks in the vicinity of the confrontation. This is not enough for the black community, nothing the Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch could have done would satisfy them, letting a grand jury decide takes politics and passion out of the decision. Yet the uninformed declare it was fixed.

Now Ferguson, including major cities across the county, is in flames as the result of hooligans who are bent on making excuses for black criminality and pretending that police shootings are responsible for American’s high black crime. The black community and black leaders take no responsibility for this behavior, nor did they accept the facts from the beginning and now from the result of the Grand Jury.

Ferguson is destroyed, the businesses will not return, people will move if they can and Ferguson will become a city with no future, poor schools and the remaining public will suffer. There is no excuse for this outrage. The authorities have gone out of their way to pacific the black community, allowing demonstrations knowing that riots will follow without a show of force. Is this lack of force because they didn’t want to intimidate the demonstrators with the National Guard? No matter of the facts, nothing the authorities can say or do can neutralize their bad behavior

According to the FBI, blacks are just 12 percent of the population but responsible for a majority of all murders in the U.S. and more than 90 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. Statistically, blacks commit violent crimes at 7 to 10 times the rate that whites do even with only 12 to the total population. Jason Riley writes (WSJ), “we cannot address the extraordinarily high rate of black criminal behavior … the discussion remains taboo, whites who mention it are racists, and blacks who bring it up are sell-outs” thus, so long as young black men are responsible for an outsized portion of violent crime, they will be viewed suspiciously by law enforcement.

Ferguson’s problem isn’t Officer Wilson, white cops, or white prosecutors; it’s the thug behavior exhibited by individuals like Michael Brown. There is no excuse for the cost and destruction of property. We, the public must ask … Where is the apology for this outrageous behavior? The leaders must account for the continuing flaming of the community.

Tom McNulty

Ferguson High School

Class of 1957

Cape Coral