Ferguson discussion thread (FERGUDISHU)

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No Charges in Michael Brown’s Death

https://apnews.com/38cbd0d2a9e50445bd2d875e1c48f89a


How is this still going on?

"Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s decision marked the third time prosecutors investigated and opted not to charge Darren Wilson, the white officer who fatally shot Brown, a Black 18-year-old, on Aug. 9, 2014. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson in November 2014, and the U.S. Department of Justice also declined to charge him in March 2015.

Civil rights leaders and Brown’s parents had hoped that Bell, the county’s first Black prosecutor who took office in January 2019, would see things differently."

I am sure they thought the current climate would favor them. Enough already.

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"Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s decision marked the third time prosecutors investigated and opted not to charge Darren Wilson, the white officer who fatally shot Brown, a Black 18-year-old, on Aug. 9, 2014. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson in November 2014, and the U.S. Department of Justice also declined to charge him in March 2015.

Civil rights leaders and Brown’s parents had hoped that Bell, the county’s first Black prosecutor who took office in January 2019, would see things differently."

I am sure they thought the current climate would favor them. Enough already.

They also took a line straight from the Mueller playbook:

“The question for this office was a simple one: Could we prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown he committed murder or manslaughter under Missouri law? After an independent and in-depth review of the evidence, we cannot prove that he did,” Bell said.

But, he said, “our investigation does not exonerate Darren Wilson.”

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"Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s decision marked the third time prosecutors investigated and opted not to charge Darren Wilson, the white officer who fatally shot Brown, a Black 18-year-old, on Aug. 9, 2014. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson in November 2014, and the U.S. Department of Justice also declined to charge him in March 2015.

Civil rights leaders and Brown’s parents had hoped that Bell, the county’s first Black prosecutor who took office in January 2019, would see things differently."

I am sure they thought the current climate would favor them. Enough already.

This country will never recover any sense of equilibrium until some folks realize that race is not a basis for making decisions whether to charge anyone with an offense.

It's beyond pathetic to even have to say something like that. And worse, it doesn't appear that the concept of "blind justice" will be restored anytime soon.

If it isn't, our days as a (formerly great) nation will be behind us.