This might be the least surprising story to come out of the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting incident.

The officer at the center of the controversy is leaving his job. Darren Wilson, cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a state grand jury, is stepping down from the Ferguson Police Department to, shall we say, “pursue other interests.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cop-at-center-of-ferguson-case-to-leave-force/ar-BBg6391

His days as a police officer are over. He shot a young black man to death in August and the unrest that erupted in Ferguson and the debate that ensued across the country has yet to be contained fully.

It’s the only call he could have made, given all that has transpired.

Michael Brown’s death has touched off a serious national discussion about police-community relations, particularly as it concerns majority white police departments and the African-American community.

I am passing no judgment on whether Darren Wilson should have been indicted. I wasn’t in the grand jury room and I didn’t hear the evidence that the jurors heard. I’ve read all the conflicting accounts of what happened that terrible night in Ferguson — and I’ll leave it at that.

The aftermath, though, has been tragic at many levels. The criminals who looted, burned and smashed innocent people’s personal property after the grand jury announced its no-bill against Wilson is shameful in the extreme.

And now a policeman’s career has come to an end. Was this young man a good officer? I don’t know that, either.

But he’ll have to find another way to restore some semblance of sanity to his life.

I wish him good luck. He will need lots of it.