So the real story wasn’t Michael Brown

The Attorney General’s report on the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson last summer found officer Darren Wilson was completely justified in stopping Brown on suspicion of robbery, and then shooting him in self-defense.

The report also found that the famous chant “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” was based on a lie. Brown never put his hands up, and never said don’t shoot. In fact, he told the officer “you’re too much of a pussy to shoot.”

But in closing the civil rights case against officer Wilson, the Justice Department opened up a bigger one against the entire Ferguson police department.

Because in a second report Attorney General Holder accused the Ferguson Police of focusing not on public safety, but “revenue generation.” Officers had ticket quotas, and they filled them by enforcing weird laws on black people.

“African Americans made up over 90 percent of those charged with a highly discretionary offense, described as a ‘manner of walking along roadway.'”

Ferguson Municipal court is so busy as many as 500 people will appear for a single session. Reading through the 105 pages, it makes you wonder why Ferguson didn’t burn down a long time ago.

Unless it’s all a lie. Which is what Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark thinks.

“I think Eric Holder has an animosity,” said Clark. “He truly believes – and I believe this – that he thinks that every white police officer is a stone cold racist.”

Really? Then why would Holder exonerate the white officer who shot Michael Brown?

But there it is – a misguided protest of a shooting that the police actually got right – ends up exposing everything they got wrong.