Yeah, I've seen the evidence. The autopsy report, fractured eye socket of officer, blood on his shirt, bullet hole through Mike's hand suggesting a grabbing motion (cop claims he was reaching for his gun) and gunpowder residue on it, bullet entries showing he didn't have his hands up, multiple Black witnesses corroborated cop's story, and in the videos of people at the crime scene many claiming he had his hands up later said things that showed they weren't even there ("I was in the shower", "I was a few blocks away and heard the gunshot").
For the "he was unarmed" argument, this is the best analysis I've seen:
http://chrishernandezauthor.com/2014/08/24/a-dose-of-reality-for-ferguson-missouri/My verdict: No chance of an indictment. I will be shocked if it happens. If it does, it wouldn't surprise me if light charges were orchestrated to prevent chaos, with him being released after things have cooled down a bit, if it's even possible/feasible for them to pull that off.
You have to remember:
1.) Some level of ethnic racial favoritism is natural, and some groups, one average, display this more strongly (Hint: It's not Whites). Blacks, particularly in the ghetto, will protect their own. The "no snitching" always side against the police mentality.
2.) With the media narrative of unjustified shootings and racism, which usually turn out to false or have been portrayed in a highly skewed manner, particularly from progressive/leftist sources, it exacerbates the us vs. them mentality among Blacks and cops based on false information and impressions and creates a false perception of state of things. Even the Rodney King beating, way back in the early 90s, was misleadingly portrayed. The clips news channels aired cut out the part of the video where he charges the cops, and of course he turned out the be an absolute shitbag. Not only that, but a while ago I came across an interesting totse text file on the Zoklet archive showing how Democrats actually led to major factors that caused this:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Gw0wOWGNMWgJ:www.zoklet.net/totse/en/politics/police/afrodkng.html&hl=en&gl=us&strip=13.) Democrats/leftists generally are
not race neutral. A study was conducted on this and showed that they actually tended to be more racially biased than conservatives, except it was
in favor of Blacks:
http://racehist.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-kill-whitey-experiment-and-morally.htmlhttp://www.wired.com/2010/09/kill-whitey-its-the-right-thing-to-do/This is explains part of the reason for the behavior from partisan leftist sources. They really do automatically side with minorities nearly every damn time, unless the evidence is undeniable from the start.