Orwell explained Ferguson 80 years ago.

Before he became George Orwell, Eric Blair was a policeman in Burma in a job he loathed. He was a white officer with a native crowd that wanted him to do something, so he shoots an elephant that had calmed down but had wreaked havoc. In his essay “Shooting an elephant” he wrote: “I was legally in the right so it gave me a pretext for shooting. I often wonder whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool?” Is that what happened in Ferguson when an officer trapped in a macho personality shot an unarmed boy so as not to look a fool? Is it OK now for an officer to kill an unarmed 12 year old? Is it OK for 5 cops to pile on a helpless unarmed man and choke him to death so as not to look foolish? Unlike the young Blair/Orwell the US is home to barbarians with badges. They shoot from the hip and return to the station for donuts without a second thought.