Likely unless there had been more police officers Brown likely would have been shot

Darren Wilson's Testimony

After reading the testimony in the above article, I sort of come to the same conclusion as the Grand Jury. Unless there were more police officers there, likely there was no chance that Mr. Brown wouldn't have at least been shot if not killed.

So, if on the surface you simply take the fact that an unarmed man who was black was shot you might have one reaction. But, if you take these exact circumstances the officer at a certain point was just trying to stay alive because Brown was not co-operating with the officer.

Should Officer Wilson have backed off and followed the pair of men until backup arrived. Very Likely.

However, this might not have been possible or useful either. One can never know about something like this.

Did Brown rob a convenience store and intimidate people there before being confronted by Officer Wilson?

Yes. There is footage of this. Was Brown high on some kind of drug? Possibly. This I don't think was brought up in this article.

As a matter of principle should any unarmed man be shot by police?

No. But, situations can create this type of scenario we have here especially if someone is harming another person be that an officer of the law or another innocent person.

However, I think the real problem here is that the laws of Missouri are getting black men killed by police whether they deserve to be or not.

So, a lot of thought needs to be put into how the people of Missouri are going to deal with all this.