The fact is that there is no type of peaceful protest that will change the verdict, or even the way that events in which a cop shoots an unarmed civilian. There is probably no type of violent protest that will have much effect, either, other than to underline to the individual policeman what can easily happen when some White cop shoots some unarmed Black person. The least that can happen is that you will lose your job.
Perhaps this is unfair. But, it you were the Mayor the Chief of Police in Ferguson, how could you possibly keep Wilson on the force?
Darren Wilson may be as innocent as the driven snow, but as they say, "He'll never work in Ferguson again." Perhaps they will buy him off clandestinely, so as not to provoke even more outrage. I have heard that they were trying to get him to resign before the grand jury hearing, so as to provide some sense that at least one thing will change. I am sure that Wilson's lawyer told him not that it was not in any way in his interest to do this. I find it hard to believe that it would have been in Wilson's interest to resign.
In any case, there is a fund to which those who support Wilson can donate, and I imagine that he will be able to live on that and perhaps seek a job in someplace where he might be more welcome. Perhaps in the Idaho Panhandle, Alaska, Arizona, some mostly all White town in Oklahoma. And of course, he could contract with a ghost writer to sell a book. All he has to do is be smarter than Joe the Plumber, not an overly difficult feat. Poor Joe the Plumber could not keep his feet out of his mouth and seems to have struck out on his fifteen minutes of fame.
Some clever soul once proposed that if Helen of Troy had the face that launched a thousand ships, then beauty could me measured in milliHelens, one milliHelen being the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship.
We could apply this to Darren Wilson, the cop who caused enough outrage to burn a hundred buildings. One CentiDarren would be the outrage required to burn a single building.
So perhaps some lesson can be learned from this mess after all.