Darren Wilson Day: Please Have Several Seats

The post on the page of the Columbia Police Officers' Association incited outrage in the college town, including among city officials. Protestors gathered Monday outside the police department, according to the newspaper.

The post said the shooting had nothing to do with race and referred to Wilson, who was a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, as an "innocent, but persecuted, officer," according to the Post-Dispatch. It also said Wilson was innocent because of "the fact that he was thoroughly investigated... and found he did NOTHING wrong," according to the report.

The Missouri police group’s “Darren Wilson Day” was condemned by Twitter.

What people are saying:

Wait, Darren Wilson Day is trending? Was Hitler unavailable to be celebrated? Charles Manson was busy?

I have nothing but respect for police that truly protect and serve, but if you celebrate Darren Wilson Day, I hope you get hit by a bus.

No surprise that the same police union who wants August 9th to be "Darren Wilson Day" also called Mike Brown's memorial "a pile of trash.”

As one of my followers pointed out, everyday is Darren Wilson Day.