No surprise

The exoneration of the University of Missouri’s police chief was predictable.

So what did you expect?

If, when you heard that the University of Missouri was investigating the behavior of its campus police chief for confronting and grabbing a Kansas University fan last March during the KU-MU basketball game in Columbia, you expected an outcome based on the fundamentals of the case (i.e., did the chief act appropriately?) you must have been a KU fan yourself.

The KU student had unveiled, with an usher’s permission, a banner poking fun at MU’s new arena.

The “investigation” determined that el jefe acted “within his bounds of his duty as a police officer,” said an MU administrator Friday. MU focused on the usher’s permission, saying that was the mistake, and apologized for the usher’s behavior, promising to formulate a policy.

As to the police chief grabbing the KU fan, MU says he did not act inappropriately.

Given the tolerance MU extends to its profane “Antlers” group, we already knew the threshold for acceptable behavior was not set tremendously high in Columbia.

Even for a police chief, we now know.