Posted on 11/01/2014 4:43:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Next month, Lesley McSpadden will travel to the Swiss city to seek justice for her own son Michael Brown.
The mother of an unarmed black 18-year-old shot and killed by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri is to take her son’s case to the United Nations in Geneva.
Accompanied by family lawyers and human rights activists, Lesley McSpadden will travel to the Swiss city next month to testify on her own son Michael Brown, shot by Officer Darren Wilson this August in Feguson, Missouri, and other victims of police violence, to the UN Committee of Torture.
"It's actually covered by article one of the convention against torture," Justin Hansford, a law professor at Saint Louis University and co-author of a brief to the UN body filed by Brown's family and local activists, told VICE News. "When the government has all the guns, all the force, and when they can kill people with impunity and without fear of being found guilty of a crime, that's a classic example of state violence."(continued)
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The pissants at the UN should focus on Fallujah not Ferguson.
At this point I'm going to reserve judgement about whether Mrs McSpadden is even really going to Geneva. Maybe she is, but I'll believe it when I hear it from another source, preferably one in Switzerland.
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sounds like a free sight seeing trip to Switzerland to me...
But do MO people, who repudiated Todd Aiken over a misspoken word or two, believe that?
I wonder who paid for her plane ticket and hotel?
Good question.
If they live inside the leftist bubble and rely on the MSM for their news, many probably do not. Either they will have heard nothing negative about Brown, or they will have been told that the evidence against him was faked. We'll be able to measure the effectiveness of the left's propaganda by the size of the upcoming riots.
As for Aiken, he was repudiated by quite a few on the right, too. What happened to him was unfair, but if you can't play the political game better than he played it, you shouldn't be on the field. After his name became radioactive he should have dropped out of the race.
Ha! I thought this was Geneva, Missouri! Is the shopkeeper fat Mike accosted going to testify? Do they allow belligerent black people in Switzerland?
Mamma Brown travelleling first class I assume.
This has nothing to do with the Swiss. Geneva is the second largest UN administrative city after NY. The leaders of these UN organizations are from all over the world, either from western nations where they made a career of international development, or from third world nations where they started as local UN staff and worked their way up and out of their respective hell-holes.
This is all about stirring up strife in America. It's all about a victim mindset instead of a responsibility mindset. The UN won't do anything, but this is actually a brilliant strategy to gain publicity and stir up their base.
I once visited the HR department of one of these UN agencies in Geneva. I was told they are looking to hire Americans as they like to hire staff in proportion to the nation's support of the UN. So they say they'd like 22% Americans, but the actual number is well below that.
Well, I saw him right after he wuz borned. After that, I sorta lost track. But he wus such a sweet baby I noze he wuz murdered by that raciss honky cop. Now Ah wants you to doos sumpin to makes it right.
Then he shouldn't be indicted, arrested, or convicted.
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The standard for an arrest without a warrant requires only probable cause that the suspect committed a crime, and does not require 100% knowledge that the suspect committed the crime.
The standard for an indictment doesn't require determination that the suspect is guilty without a doubt. (First, there's the issue of grand jury indictment v. prosecutor's discretion v. preliminary hearing v. no required unanimous grand jury vote v. standard of grand jury to bring indictment v. standard under which prosecutor should seek indictment v. no adversarial system in grand jury v. kitchen sink. That's first.)
The standard for a criminal conviction requires only guilt 'beyond a reasonable doubt,' and not guilt beyond all doubt
Ergo, neither arrest, indictment, nor conviction, nor the combination of all of the above, requires that we know, or will ever know the absoulute guilt of the suspect/defendant.
I'm willing to arrest, indict, and convict without 100% knowledge. That's part of our judicial system.
Does she know that most of the cops in Switzerland are white?
Most? Hahahahaha!
I bet they’ll all be wearing interpreter’s headsets.
Hey, I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt that there might be one or two mixed-race Swiss police somewhere in the country.
And yet, the probable cause that a crime was committed seems to be sadly lacking.
You don’t arrest someone because a bunch of racist idiots threaten to riot
You might be willing to convict on less than 100% certainty, but I am not willing to convict on less than 50% certainty. If law enforcement thought there was a reasonable chance that a jury would convict, Officer Wilson would be in a cell this minute.
Oh FFS.....
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