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Is Wilson Justified In One Year After The Death Of Jake Halpern

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In August 2014 police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed teenager Michael Brown, which set off nationwide outbreak in weeks following and still lingers today in the fall of 2017. Following the shooting many clung to the easiest explanation and labeled Wilson as a racist and pinned the shooting as unjustified. As time went on the Department of Justice did its report on the situation and concluded that the shooting was indeed justified by all forensic and witness data. With the mix of explanations in the air Jake Halpern wrote “The Cop” in The New Yorker on the situation one year after the shooting, which allowed him to find outlets on both sides of the gun. Halpern sheds light on parts of the story that were not shared on prime-time news …show more content…

By nature of writing about a situation where one side is deceased and one side is still alive one would think that automatically the one who is dead is the one to sympathize for, and it was shown based on immediate reaction to the death of Brown. Halpern, writing one year after the shooting has a more complete view of the events that transpired. Halpern shows Wilson’s redeeming qualities to show that Wilson can’t be the monster the media and Brown supporters are labeling him. Halpern while speaking about Wilson’s attempt to seek help from Mike McCarthy includes, “McCarthy had never heard another officer make such an honest admission of his own limitations” (6). Halpern wants the reader to see the deeper version of Wilson by including the fact that Wilson made the leap to further strengthen his understanding in the community he was policing. The last thing a racist police officer would want to do is try and understand those who he is discriminating against, it would be counter …show more content…

Wilson’s reaction to shooting Michael Brown is that he saw his actions as justified and he wouldn’t expect outcry to come from his actions. If Brown was still alive an account from his perspective could be drafted the same way Halpern is writing with Wilson as his firsthand account. Halpern tries to include the same level of detail from both sides but there is an unfilled gap where Brown’s first hand perspective would be. By only having one side alive and able to retell the situation leads to a one sided which Halpern is writing

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