Posted on 11/25/2014 1:41:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Well duh. It’s just part of white privilege. Sheesh!
I imagine DAs don’t like going after loosing cases and this was a looser for them, thus it was pushed onto the grand jury.
The fact the Officer testified means that his lawyer thought there was zero chance he would say anything incriminating or for which he could be credibly impeached.
This assclown is wrong that it is the prosecutor who controls that decision.
Did anyone ax him why St Michael attacked the cop?
Pray America is waking
Follow the money: no indictment, no wrongful death suit against the city of Ferguson.
Brown family lawyer worried he’s not going to get paid ,D’oh
I heard some liberal commentator on the local channel last night say that prosecutors are supposed to go for the win. I guess going for the truth just wouldn't be right.
You need to understand how libtards think. We no longer have a Department of Justice. We have a Department of Social Justice (as they define it) and rules are to be made up as you go along.
This same legal rocket scientist told Hannity today that the prosecutor was at fault for returning a verdict of not guilty.
Huh?
I think there was 12 people that found no probable cause, but I guess that must be a rumor, because the black ambulance chaser says so and he is a legal scholar don’t you know.
Hannity tried to explain that the prosecutor had explained that believe it or not there is actually some sort of, (I know it’s unbelievable), but I heard something once about a person being presumed innocent. Sarc..
I have heard many calls from certain segments that the prosecutor should have come up with something to indict Wilson for.
I think that none of those people would be satisfied unless a prosecutor deems Wilson guilty by some sort of executive order which could then allow an actual lynching of Wilson.
Very simple.
Officer Wilson should have been exonerated right from the start and this case never should have went to the Grand Jury in the first place
Officer Wilson was fully and unambiguously justified in his use of deadly force against Mike Brown and the evidence in the hands of everyone clearly showed within the first week of this affair.
The Prosecutor should have come out and said so publicly at the very start of this disaster and told the public he would not be charged on the basis that the shooting was justified.
Instead of the the right thing and making the call himself , the Prosecutor punted and referred the the case to a Grand Jury on the pretext that Grand Jury impartiality was needed to lend unbiased, third party credibility to the decision not to charge Officer Wilson.
That lawyer is a particularly scummy lawyer. If I was a judge on the case / civil case I would slap a gag order on him so tight he’d need breathing tubes. As it is I think he should be disbarred for inciting violence.
On the other hand, Yes, I agree. The things the prosecutor did and said during his odd news conference makes me think he was decidedly favoring the Police officer, like I do — But I’m not a DA seeking an indictment with neither pride nor passion.
I don’t know about Missouri but in New York, except in the case of a sealed indictment, a defendant has the right to testify before the grand jury. Most don’t exercise it because they have to waive immunity but its hardly unheard of.
FLASHBACK:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/03/24/142983/martin-familys-lawyers-no-strangers.html
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2012
EXCERPTS
In Trayvon’s case, (Parks & Crump) alerted the news media more quickly. They phoned the Rev. Al Sharpton almost instantly, and organized marches with local civil rights activists. They also started pressing for federal involvement and alleging a cover-up from the get-go.
(snip)
“In court, you have the jury,” Crump says. “Our job is to get the case to a jury. We need to fight first in the court of public opinion. The jury is the American people.
Someone Must Be Punished for Killing Trayvon Martin, Says Mom Sybrina Fulton
by Allison Samuels Mar 22, 2012 2:04 AM EDT
EXCERPT
The now controversial killing of Trayvon garnered virtually no mainstream media attention in the days immediately after he was fatally shot, but that all changed when the teenager’s parents decided to hire civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump and his law firm to get more answers on exactly how and why their son died.
“They called me the same day they were notified that their son was dead,’’ Crump told The Daily Beast. “When I heard their unarmed teenage son was shot to death, I just knew there’d be an arrest shortly. There wasn’t an arrest 48 hours later, and then I knew we’d have to take this outside of Sanford if we wanted justice.’’
Trayvon’s parents were told by the Sanford police that Zimmerman wasn’t arrested in their son’s death because the facts of the case did not dispute his claim of self-defense.
For Crump, taking the Trayvon Martin story outside of Sanford simply entailed dialing up a few well-placed friends such as the Rev. Al Sharpton. Crump worked closely with the civil rights leader in 2006 on another racially charged case—the controversial death of a 14-year-old, African-American inmate of a Florida boot camp.
“I had to call people like Sharpton and a few other black civil rights leaders and the black media to tell them about this story,’’ said Crump. “I had to get them to understand what happened to this young man and what hadn’t happened in his case so they could spread the word.’’
Historically, cases of murder and violence against blacks in the United States rarely have been given the same amount of attention as cases in which the victims of crime are white—and often go unnoticed and unprosecuted.
Just days after hearing the details of Trayvon’s death, Sharpton arranged to have Crump and the teenager’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, on his syndicated radio show and his popular MSNBC show, Politics Nation, to tell their story.
(snip)
In the wake of non-stop media attention from the likes of Sharpton and CNN’s Don Lemon concerning the Trayvon Martin case, black media blogs such as MediaTakeOut.com and Huffington Post Black Voices also began publishing accounts and editorials about the Florida case—daily. Almost instantly, readers of all races, ages, and backgrounds began tweeting and posting on Facebook their outrage over how the police have handled the case, and the lack of an arrest in the shooting. To date, almost 1 million people have signed a Change.Org petition to have Zimmerman arrested. In response to the widespread outrage, the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the shooting.
I took the prosecutor's intent to defend the grand jury process and let the public know in summary form the evidence that led to the no true bill verdict. He knew the reaction the verdict would cause and knew the lies the media was feeding the public. Presumably, he was trying to head some of that off.
Try hard to get him indicted even when the evidence exonerated him?
Hey, if you don’t want to end up shot don’t bully a policeman and try to steal his gun.
Anyone see the picture of the father with a t-shirt that had a picture of his thug son and above it said “Gone To Soon”
What a dumb a$$.
Yes, 100%!
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