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What Will Happen to Officer Darren Wilson?
American Spectator ^ | August 21, 2014 | Aaron Goldstein

Posted on 08/22/2014 5:35:34 AM PDT by Zakeet

A grand jury has convened to determine what charges, if any, will be brought against Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown earlier this month.

Over at The New Republic, Yishai Schwartz argues that a conviction against Wilson is impossible because of Missouri's self defense laws

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If Wilson isn't indicted by the grand jury or is acquitted at trial, the Brown family will most certainly file a wrongful death lawsuit. I also wouldn't be surprised if Eric Holder were to pursue a case against Wilson for federal civil rights violations. But that will do little to mollify the mob out for Wilson's blood. if Wilson isn't indicted and convicted then the unrest in Ferguson will resume with a vengeance as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Spike Lee stoke the flames.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: ferguson; justice; leo; missouri; racism; riots; tas
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The quest for justice will resume with a vengeance if that White cop isn't sent to his certain death in prison!

1 posted on 08/22/2014 5:35:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
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It’ll be found by the grand jury that the shooting was justified. Will more riots result? More than likely.


2 posted on 08/22/2014 5:38:36 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Zakeet

Somebody help me here...

Correct me if I am wrong, but the ONLY ESTABLISHED FACT in this case is that perp was shot from the front. Yes?

It is NOT YET A FACT that the officer was beaten, or has a black eye, or a broken eye. Yes?

ALL that I hear makes it sound that the cop was beaten, but that’s not official yet, right?


3 posted on 08/22/2014 5:39:00 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: Zakeet
The quest for justice will resume with a vengeance if that White cop isn't sent to his certain death in prison

Yes, they will kill him in prison, but if not in prison, the scum bags of the earth, will kill him on the streets. Unfortunately, either way, he will not survive long. What a screwed up country we live in.

4 posted on 08/22/2014 5:42:19 AM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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To: Doctor 2Brains

I guess the x-ray of Officer Wilson’s head showing the damage to his eye socket isn’t an established fact?


5 posted on 08/22/2014 5:43:18 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Somebody on this forum said that was an X-ray of AN eye, and not Wilson’s eye. Said poster cautioned against using that pic. Believe me, I WANT that to be Wilson’s head, because then it’s an open and shut case, but again, there seems to be a LOT of things out there that are unconfirmed.


6 posted on 08/22/2014 5:45:31 AM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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7 posted on 08/22/2014 5:48:21 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Zakeet

In the end I don’t think that they could get either a conviction or a civil judgment against Officer Wilson.

But they are going to drag him though four or five years of legal Hell in the name up pumping-up Democrat fundraising and GOTV efforts.

In the end he’ll have to change his name, get plastic surgery, and live on the same Idaho mountaintop with George Zimmerman.


8 posted on 08/22/2014 5:49:02 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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First off the law suit. Then a book followed by a book tour. Oprah will clinch the 1st interview and she’ll call it, “Why the Hate? Up Close and Personal with Mrs. Brown”. Then the college speech circuit at $50,000 a pop. Then…their own “social justice” foundation! “Stop Killing. It’s Taking a Toll on Love the Environment and School” (SKITTLES).


9 posted on 08/22/2014 5:51:15 AM PDT by albie
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To: Doctor 2Brains

> Somebody on this forum said that was an X-ray of AN eye, and not Wilson’s eye. Said poster cautioned against using that pic. Believe me, I WANT that to be Wilson’s head, because then it’s an open and shut case, but again, there seems to be a LOT of things out there that are unconfirmed.

It’s the liberals using a distraction tactic of the can’t see the forest for the trees variety. They’ll cast doubt that he had an orbital fracture while overlooking the fact that Brown punched him in the face and went for his gun. They try to draw you away from the more important issues by using sleight of hand.


10 posted on 08/22/2014 5:52:42 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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The Brown family will pursue a wrongful death suit whether or not the officer is indicted. Sharpton has put dollar signs in their eyes. And holder, will file civil rights charges whether the officer is charged or not. The narrative has been written and somebody must be held responsible(as long as it’s not obama or anyone in the administration)


11 posted on 08/22/2014 5:53:19 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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Wilson for federal civil rights violations.

That's still on the table for G. Zimmerman too.

12 posted on 08/22/2014 5:54:08 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. Eccl 10,v 19)
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To: Doctor 2Brains

One autopsy-—there have been three, to date-—indicated Brown had an injury at his thumb joint-—which might indicate a struggle w/ a hard object, like a gun.

If he did struggle w/ the officer’s gun-—he would have left his DNA there.


13 posted on 08/22/2014 5:56:04 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Zakeet

He will be cleared.


14 posted on 08/22/2014 5:57:03 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: Zakeet

It looks like Wilson has the state law on his side but you can take it to the bank that Holder is waiting in the wings to bring a federal civil rights charge. It is going to be a long haul for Wilson. I wonder if he wins at the state level whether he is entitled to appointment of state defense counsel?


15 posted on 08/22/2014 5:58:27 AM PDT by iontheball
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You forgot-—taking it all off for Playboy.

Followed by a porn flick, “Black on Black Love Beats Hatred.”


16 posted on 08/22/2014 5:59:23 AM PDT by Liz
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RIDING THE TIGER / American Thinker/ FR posted by ALtura Ct

Let there be no mistake, every American urban basket case has been under the control of liberalism for decades, and the pathologies they are now experiencing are only the prelude to what lies ahead when the civic cancer fully metastasizes.

Ferguson, and a thousand cities like it, have fallen down the rabbit hole because they have disregarded justice and are deficient in the moral accountability that must accompany human dignity.

These cities languish in their present hopeless condition because they are the stillborn children of the condescending liberal dream -- (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

Ferguson...."a seething tribal hatred supplants even the most fundamental quality of reason"....

17 posted on 08/22/2014 6:01:44 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Zakeet

Officer Wilson is going down make no mistake about it. The Feds will use the old civil rights violation catch all to charge and convict him


19 posted on 08/22/2014 6:13:08 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: Liz
If he did struggle w/ the officer’s gun-—he would have left his DNA there.

Might not even need DNA. One good fingerprint would prove Brown's hand was on that gun. Dorain Johnson has already admitted that he lied about what happened in the car, and that it was Brown that attacked Wilson, not the other way around.

20 posted on 08/22/2014 6:14:17 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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