The grand jury was composed of 12 people “selected at random from a fair cross-section of the citizens,” according to Missouri law. The jury was 75 percent white: six white men, three white women, two black women and one black man. St. Louis County overall is 70 percent white, but about two-thirds of Ferguson’s residents are black. Brown was black. The officer is white.
Does anybody know how the decision went? And how the blacks in the jury voted?
It is illegal to make that information known, and the question was specifically asked at the press conference.
The prosecutor is a Dem. However, his father was in law enforcement, and was killed responding to a call involving a black suspect. That lead to some fears by him that if he doesn’t indict, it will be seen as bias, hence the decision to rather go the a grand jury to remove any doubts as to his motives.
Grand jury members are selected before the cases are assigned to them, so it was a random assignment. There is no jury selection process like there would be for a trial.
It all adds up to the fact that this process was as legal, transparent, and thorough as could be, with no opportunities to point fingers at the process or the prosecutor.
In the end it boils down to the same difference as always, for liberals, emotion trumps fact.
I could've sworn I heard Megyn Kelly say the decision was unanimous but I haven't been able to find the video.
That information was not provided by the judge overseeing the grand jury. The prosecutor made this clear in his press conference. Heck, it may not have been known by the judge, and only the 12 jury members know. Perhaps not even them, if the foreman did a secret ballot.