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Unorthodox police procedures emerge in grand jury documents
The Washington Post ^ | 11-26-2014 | Jerry Markon and Tom Hamburger

Posted on 11/26/2014 6:24:43 PM PST by servo1969

When Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson left the scene of the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the officer returned to the police station unescorted, washed blood off his hands and placed his recently fired pistol into an evidence bag himself.

Those actions, described in grand jury testimony, violated protocols for handling a crime scene and securing evidence, according to experts in policing procedures and Justice Department documents.

Wilson’s movements after the shooting were among a number of police actions in the aftermath of Brown’s death that experts said were unusual. The grand jury transcripts revealed, for example, that the officers who interviewed Wilson immediately after the shooting did not tape the conversations. They also showed that an investigator from the medical examiner’s office opted not to take measurements at the crime scene and arrived there believing that what happened between Brown and Wilson was “self-explanatory.’’

It is unclear how these un­or­tho­dox practices may have influenced the investigation of a shooting that has triggered a national conversation about race and police practices. The grand jury’s decision Monday not to indict Wilson in connection with the shooting death has led to protests nationwide.

Police and forensic officials have not responded to requests for comment over a two-day period.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ferguson; holder; obama
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The media and the Obama administration want Wilson to fry and they're gonna dig until they find a way to make it happen.

He will be charged with violating Brown's civil rights even though they know they will lose.

And when they lose they will say, "See? That's how things work in white America!"

Stoke that fire, stir that pot, kick that hornet's nest...

1 posted on 11/26/2014 6:24:43 PM PST by servo1969
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To: servo1969

So after all this crap they’re reduced to whining about “unorthodox police procedures”? A-holes!


2 posted on 11/26/2014 6:26:18 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: servo1969

Obama and the scumbag media preparing a civil rights case.


3 posted on 11/26/2014 6:27:32 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: servo1969
Unorthodox police procedures emerge in grand jury documents

"Oy gevalt!"

4 posted on 11/26/2014 6:27:54 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: servo1969

The only GOOD thing that the Washington Compost is doing now is to contribute to the draining of Jeff Bezos’ fortune with its continuing losses.

Other than that, it continues its pathetic attempts at national corruption and lies.


5 posted on 11/26/2014 6:27:56 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: vladimir998

yeah, that’s worth two or three riots right there. I always take a gang down to the PD to protest their inconsistent;y following procedures.


6 posted on 11/26/2014 6:28:17 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: vladimir998

This sounds weird, didn’t Wilson get socked in the face and go to the hospital? Seems he would have given his gun to someone else. Who is asserting these things.


7 posted on 11/26/2014 6:28:31 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: servo1969

They can’t find any evidence he broke the law.

So now they’re b*tching about technicalities.

From the same folks who think that better a technicality than an innocent man go to prison.

Which apparently doesn’t apply to Darren Wilson.


8 posted on 11/26/2014 6:29:55 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: servo1969

Out of order!!! The whole system is out of order..


9 posted on 11/26/2014 6:30:07 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (i)
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To: servo1969

All of the MSM have had their rental ambulance chasers nitpicking nonsense items trying to impugn the Grand Jury.


10 posted on 11/26/2014 6:30:17 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Put lipstick on a Communist and call it a Progressive, but it's still a Communist with lipstick.)
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To: servo1969
It is unclear how these un­or­tho­dox practices may have influenced the investigation of a shooting...

...but let's see if we throw this against the wall it will stick.

11 posted on 11/26/2014 6:30:38 PM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a Gospel preacher like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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these looters and ask them “Is this how your getting justice What everhone has witnessed in Ferguson with the insurrection is LIBERALISM..plain and simple..what liberalism is all about, right from the womb til adulthood these people are taught they are victims, that everything is owed to them, that they dont have to work or go to school to better


12 posted on 11/26/2014 6:31:33 PM PST by Sasparilla
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How are you going to get killed by a cop if you go to school and work. Thugs have to be on the street, literally.


13 posted on 11/26/2014 6:32:35 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: servo1969

That is why Sharpton and Jackson take on these cases. They know the are going to lose, based on the reality of the situation, but they go ahead because then they can claim they lost because of WHITEY/RACISM.


14 posted on 11/26/2014 6:32:57 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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This Isn't Civil Rights


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15 posted on 11/26/2014 6:33:12 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: servo1969

grasping at straws they are, as the preponderance of eye witnesses who testified at the Grand Jury hearings confirmed the police officer’s version of events

the other procedures may be “better” and if so may have protected the police officer from the many false charges that will be leveled at him just because of the procedures and regardless of the evidence


16 posted on 11/26/2014 6:35:35 PM PST by Wuli
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Out of order!!! The whole system is out of order..

"YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER! THEY'RE OUT OF ORDER!"

17 posted on 11/26/2014 6:37:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: HiTech RedNeck

They say they’re getting all the info from the Grand Jury testimony.


18 posted on 11/26/2014 6:39:18 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: servo1969

Officer Wilson, have you ever said the N word in the last 10 years?


19 posted on 11/26/2014 6:40:27 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: vladimir998

Is there some public repository of this stuff. So bad, good, or ugly, everybody at least agrees what it was.


20 posted on 11/26/2014 6:42:00 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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