With the decision on Officer Darren Wilson still pending, Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough voiced concern Monday that the “pressure” that has built around Ferguson has now made Wilson's indictment a “prerequisite for peace.”

Though “[w]e don’t know the evidence,” said Scarborough, “everybody’s demanding indictments.”  The host called for calm and the rule of law, stating that while it “may not be a very fashionable thing to say,” Officer Wilson deserves due process.

While Scarborough defended Wilson’s right to due process, he also worked in an unequivocal condemnation of George Zimmerman, who he accused of chasing Trayvon Martin “around a neighborhood” and shooting him “because he was black.”

I have a concern about a police officer whose indictment is now a prerequisite for peace. And the pressure is building to indict, to indict, to indict. We don’t know the evidence.

It’s not like Trayvon [Martin], where you had a guy chase a guy around a neighborhood and shoot him because he was black. We don’t know the evidence here. And yet everybody’s demanding indictments.

We want to make sure that the police officer gets due process. That may not be a very fashionable thing to say. I’m hearing people say, well, whether he deserves it or not, we have to have a trial. No, that’s not the way the Constitution works. If there is evidence to indict him and move forward with it, then for god’s sake, do it. If there’s not, don’t.

Video via MSNBC, partial transcript via Mediaite.