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'Must Not Stand': Nation Reacts to Missouri Grand Jury Decision
NBC News ^ | November 24, 2014 | Miranda Leitsinger

Posted on 11/24/2014 7:13:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

People across the country reacted sharply to the decision by a grand jury not to indict a white Missouri police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, with protesters taking to the streets in cities from Oakland to New York.

St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced the grand jury had chosen not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, who gunned down Michael Brown, 18, on a street in Ferguson on Aug. 9. The grand jury had options from first-degree murder to no charge at all.

In New York, protesters held up a poster reading "Black Lives Matter." In Oakland, about 100 demonstrators marched to the police department, local media reported.

"The racism in this acquittal is breathtaking. THIS MUST NOT STAND. We must stand up collectively. DEMAND JUSTICE," tweeted CODEPINK, a social justice, grassroots movement.

"My thoughts are with family of Michael Brown and the Ferguson community. I'm echoing their calls for peace / nonviolence," tweeted Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.....

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: codepink; darrenwilson; ferguson; fergusongjmediaspin; fergusonmayhem; fergusonriots; lefties; leftwingnuts; ny; oakland
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To: Catsrus

Maybe Jonathon Gruber wasn’t too far off the mark...


61 posted on 11/24/2014 8:03:14 PM PST by Russ (Repeal the '17th amendment)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

CodePink: where you gals been for 6 years?


62 posted on 11/24/2014 8:22:41 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: ilgipper

Inflammatory rhetoric courtesy of NBC News.


63 posted on 11/24/2014 8:29:54 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sometimes justice happens.


64 posted on 11/24/2014 8:35:31 PM PST by pallis
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To: yldstrk

“so was Michael Brown “a fleeing felon” or did he “charge the officer”?”

I haven’t heard him called a “fleeing felon” so I guess it’s option B.


65 posted on 11/24/2014 8:47:48 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The racism in this acquittal is breathtaking.

Sorry Honey, but this wasn't an "acquittal". It was a finding by a grand jury that there isn't any evidence the cop committed a crime. Jeesh....

66 posted on 11/24/2014 8:48:04 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Catsrus

So, a dozen Twitterers comprise a “Nation”???!!!!

I expect no less from a media source embedded in Obama’s hip pocket. And buried should deep in his backside!

Quiet as a church here in Falls Church, VA.

I guess that “riots in every major city of the U.S, was so much horse crap.


67 posted on 11/24/2014 8:48:43 PM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What were they trying to indict him for? It wasn't cold-blooded murder, Michael Brown had already attacked the Officer, and from witness accounts, after walking away, when he would have lived, chose instead to show his butt, turn around and run the Officer down. He was a much bigger man than the officer, by all accounts, and could have done some real damage to the officer, if the officer hadn't protected himself. By the placement of the bullets, it seemed as though the officer was trying first to shoot to warn, then shoot to slow Michael Brown down, then shoot to wound, but, because Brown went into a head butting stance, the last couple of shots got him in the head. The Grand Jury had no other choice but to NOT indict him on murder, or even manslaughter charges, because it was self-defense.

Of course, all that will be lost on the perpetually aggrieved, like the race hustlers, poverty pimps, and CodePink.

68 posted on 11/24/2014 8:51:27 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Jack Deth

My son lives near Falls Church. In fact, he teaches at a college near there.


69 posted on 11/24/2014 9:01:16 PM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Flame throwers at NBC. Keep repeating myself on various threads. This is on the media! They are throwing gasoline on the fire to see how big it can get!


70 posted on 11/24/2014 9:24:02 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nation Reacts to Missouri Grand Jury Decision

In Oakland, about 100 demonstrators marched to the police department, local media reported.

LOL!

71 posted on 11/24/2014 9:45:50 PM PST by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I thought Ditch Witch was a motorized vehicle?


72 posted on 11/24/2014 10:39:27 PM PST by glyptol
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To: lonevoice

100 would be the lunch rush at Subways.


73 posted on 11/24/2014 10:50:47 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Really, NBC? The nation is upset?

I was satisfied with the ruling.

I am part of the nation.

Soooo....your headline, like much of your content, is a lie.


74 posted on 11/25/2014 2:33:08 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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?We must stand up collectively. DEMAND JUSTICE," tweeted CODEPINK,

You GOT justice, you commie creeps. You just don't like it.

75 posted on 11/25/2014 2:37:14 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Fungi
So in other words, truth does not matter? What does?

The Revolution matters. ONLY The Revolution matters.

Alinsky laid it all out decades ago.

76 posted on 11/25/2014 2:38:30 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

It isn’t about Darren Wilson, it is about the police. They, the Black, want to be the police. Nothing else will stand. .


77 posted on 11/25/2014 2:42:17 AM PST by Eva
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Satan’s lynch mob needs it thirst for blood quenched.


78 posted on 11/25/2014 3:05:42 AM PST by kanawa
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To: Bettyprob

The Grand Jury was impaneled in May for the entire St. Louis County Area. The makeup accurately reflects the composition of the County per local News reports.


79 posted on 11/25/2014 3:19:03 AM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Le//t Freedom Ring.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The problem is that, as it was with the Rodney King decision, the media created expectations that the evidence did not support. So people began believing what they heard on the the TV, and when the legal system didn't support that, they blamed it on 'whitey', and a legal system that's rigged against black people.

Sadly, too many in the media don't bother with evidence, they're too interested in how people FEEL, which is irrelevant to the legal system, as it should be. I'm glad the Grand Jury released its findings and the evidence used to support it. Of course, for the perpetually aggrieved, it will make absolutely no difference, but maybe the people who read it with open minds will begin to understand WHY the police officer was not indicted, even though there were 5 choices given for doing so.

80 posted on 11/27/2014 12:50:35 PM PST by SuziQ
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