Perhaps because the jurors wanted to be home for Thanksgiving, and the authorities are hoping that the combined Thanksgiving/Black Friday holiday will keep more people thinking about something other than Ferguson.
I was being facetious.
Or they were waiting for Mr. Wilson to be away on his honeymoon.
FERGUSON, Mo. — Darren Wilson, the officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, has been out of public sight ever since. Yet last month, he stepped into a St. Louis County office building, gave his name and applied for a marriage license.
Several days later, Officer Wilson married Barbara Spradling, a fellow officer in the Ferguson Police Department, public records show