This is my latent opinion. A general comeback on the verdict before all the facts are out by the grace of Missouri’s Sunshine Laws.

Much of the Messenger staff watched last night, as St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch revealed, that Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, would not be indicted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown. The grand jury anointed with deciding whether or not Wilson would be tried decided he shouldn’t be, 106 days after the shooting.

We watched initially quiet, on-screen protesters, standing outside a courthouse in Clayton, change entirely into rioting. The news of the verdict set off looting, burning of officers’ cars, and a mass stand-off against officers, with their tear gas and bullets, rioters, and peaceful protesters (they do exist).

We observed the epitome of juxtaposition on-screen: President Barack Obama calling on the nation to accept the decision, protest peacefully, opposite an aerial view of a smoke and bedlam.

This opinion isn’t about the reaction, though, of the city (-cities, New York and Chicago have also faced rioting). It’s about one aspect of the decision.

McCulloch himself said, last night, that Wilson’s first shot at Brown had been enough to incapacitate the teenager.

Still, five more followed.

It doesn’t take 106 days to prove a man shouldn’t even be tried for involuntary manslaughter – it takes 106 days to find a way to spin it.