Posted on 10/31/2014 2:23:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Justice Department investigators have all but concluded they do not have a strong enough case to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., according to law enforcement officials.
When racial tension boiled over in Ferguson after the Aug. 9 shooting, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. traveled to the St. Louis suburb to meet with city leaders and protest organizers in an effort to bring calm. He assured them that the federal government would open a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, but that investigation now seems unlikely to result in any charges.
“The evidence at this point does not support civil rights charges against Officer Wilson,” said one person briefed on the investigation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
Justice Department officials are loath to acknowledge publicly that their case cannot now meet the high legal threshold for a successful civil rights prosecution. The timing is sensitive: Tensions are high in greater St. Louis as people await the results of a grand jury’s review of the case.
Many supporters of Brown say they are already convinced there will be no state-level indictment of the officer. Federal officials have wanted to show that they are conducting a full and fair review of the case.
Justice spokesman Brian Fallon said the case remains open and any discussion of its results is premature. “This is an irresponsible report by The Washington Post that is based on idle speculation,” Fallon said in a statement.
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Since when do you need evidence for a lynching?
Countdown before they pull a Zimmerman on him...5-4-3-2-1...
Hasn’t stopped them so far! A. H.s
The __________ Post sucks big-time.
The name Washington is being used by the Post without family permission. It is insulting, and demeaning to the name of our First President. (Nod to the Redskins)
How much more fair and impartial can the Justice Department get?
Rumors of no grand jury indictment and now no fed civil rights case. The poor Ferguson folks are losing all around.
“Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. traveled to the St. Louis suburb to meet with city leaders and protest organizers in an effort to bring calm.”
“To bring calm”.
Yup, that’s right. That’s the ticket.
Since Eric Holder has not yet "left the building", whether or not there is a strong enough case to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson is probably immaterial.
His "Justice" Department operates with the blindfold removed and his thumb on the scale.
And the savages will not believe, betrayed by holder
Gee...yuh think? Some scuzzy punk assaults a cop, gets his head blown off, and we should arrest the cop? It’s time we ended the reign of the race vultures who have been running this country for too many years.
so Holder showing up with JD ‘protest trainers’ was ‘calming’ things? alrighty then
“Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. traveled to the St. Louis suburb to meet with city leaders and protest organizers in an effort to bring calm.”
It must take a special kind of stupid to scribble propaganda like this. Only a 50 IQ moron would believe that a racist commie agitator like Holder showed up in Ferguson “to bring calm.”
Zimmerman case heads to federal grand jury: Civil rights hearing to take place Wed. in Orlando
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3221868/posts
If they truly want evidence, Tawana Brawley knows how to create that.
The sad thing is that all those dupes actually believed what they were told and expected an indictment. This is what happens when you are lied to and used by the race hustlers and democrat party in general.
Seems to me that this is a last-ditch desperate attempt by the Washington Compost to stir up certain voters for the mid-terms.
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