A call to Open Action

 

"I need all of us to come together and do this right, the right way," said Brown Sr., who wore a T-shirt showing his son's baby picture.  "No violence."

 

In the country of the NRA, in a place where African Americans are still marginalized and so soon after the death of his son.

 

This is the kind of courage and conviction I admire.

 

But what now? 

 

"If the officer behaved inappropriate, we've got to sanction the officer and figure out what it is that led him to do what he did," Klinger said.  "Was he poorly trained? Was there a pattern in this agency?"

 

Klinger said the investigation must be as "transparent as possible."

 

Exactly.

 

There's a lesson in this for any authorities who feel that there's little ROI on being open.