The black-white divide in America - Ferguson police officer who shot dead a black teenager resigns

It was another shocking incident of black-white divide that America witnessed four months back when a white police officer Darren Wilson shot dead a black teenager 18-year-old Michael Brown. It is hard to believe that this can happen in a country where the ‘n**r’ word is taboo and where Martin Luther King lived and Barack Obama rules.
The incident had similarities with that of another white George Zimmerman shooting dead an unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.
As per latest information, Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed unarmed Michael Brown, has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department – he took this decision nearly four months after the confrontation. The incident evoked sharp reactions and led to protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Incidentally, the officer had been on administrative leave since the shooting on Aug. 9 and his decision was conveyed by one of his attorneys who added that the resignation was with immediate effective.
It may be recalled that a grand jury had spent more than three months reviewing evidence in the case before declining in November to issue charges against Wilson who had told jurors that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and, therefore, reached for his gun.
Of course, the U.S. Justice Department is still conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate probe of police department practices.
Following the shooting, Officer Wilson had gone into hiding and had not made any public statements but broke his silence only after the decision of the grand jury.
Incidentally, Wilson had a clean record and a few months before the shooting, he had received a commendation for detaining a suspect in a drug case.