Posted on 11/25/2014 12:26:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The St. Louis Prosecutor Robert McCullough made a series of highly unusual decisions on Monday. He was reportedly seeking to defuse the highly charged situation in the wake of a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer killing an unarmed black teenager.
He did not succeed.
Protests ignited in Ferguson, fanning flames, literal and figurative, throughout the night. Demonstrations spread from New York City to Oakland, California. Even as President Barack Obama spoke to the nation, cable news channels showed him on a split screen with the violent protests. He did not even get three-quarters of the shot.
McCullough was continuing the string of leadership miscalculations that have been the rule for Ferguson ever since Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown on Aug. 9.
Jelani Cobb astutely analyzes this in The New Yorkers Daily Comment on Tuesday:
From the outset, the great difficulty has been discerning whether the authorities are driven by malevolence or incompetence. The Ferguson police let Browns body lie in the street for four and a half hours, an act that either reflected callous disregard for him as a human being or an inability to manage the situation. The release of Darren Wilsons name was paired with the release of a video purportedly showing Brown stealing a box of cigarillos from a convenience store, although Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson later admitted that Wilson was unaware of the incident when he confronted the young man. (McCullough contradicted this in his statement on the non-indictment.)
Despite the sizable police presence, few officers were positioned on the stretch of West Florissant Avenue where Brown was killed. The result was that damage to the area around the police station was sporadic and short-lived, but Browns neighborhood burned.....
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We should indict her and then figure out if she’s guilty of anything.
I was listening to a talking head interview an “expert” who said the Ferguson prosecutor should have just presented the minimum evidence necessary to the Grand Jury to get an indictment, then the rest of the information could come out at trial. The prosecutor was negligent in performing a “document dump” on the Grand Jury instead.
Really?
That’s how liberals work today isn’t it? “We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it” or “Legalize illegals and deal with the open border later”
How about having only black police and black-only courts deal with districts that are majority black?
You know - separate but equal?
Six years of this lying, dishonest, lawbreaking regime has really corroded this country.
Er, right. Because that's the remit of every prosecutor/DA, isn't it?
Let’s be real clear and shorten the authors point.
“The DA should have found something to charge the cop with. Hell, you can indict a ham sandwich. What was the problem here? I mean, we indicted a rugby team on total lies, evidence omission and PR extortion. What happened here?”
A grand jury, even in the hands of ACLU `tard attorney will indict a box of chicken McNuggets.
AS the libtards like to say, `There was no there there.” Rooters should know this, but of course they plead stupid.
Like Sharia courts. Hmmm. Interesting thought. Only blacks are allowed to use the Sharia Court system. I'm ok with that if that's what they want.
1. Allison Silver receives article from white house via secure server.
2. Adds name as Author, publishes.
3. Gets nominated for Pulitzer.
I think it’s about time people re consider the motivations of the agitators.
To many of these people, they are in an openly declared race war with American main stream society of all races and they are using the system to spread propaganda to further their aims to win the war they have started.
There is no honesty or objectivity at work here and the agitators and their allies in the MSM are not honest brokers trying to fairly report the news.
Even after the tragedy last night in Ferguson, guys like George Stephanopolis are granting interviews to the community organizers who planned and executed the riots and who trained the rioters to continue their propaganda campaign of No Justice, No Peace which since they can and never will be satisfied that they have been granted suitable justice simply means that they are justified for their riots and will keep on rioting in the name of unobtainable cosmic justice.
“The Ferguson police let Browns body lie in the street for four and a half hours, an act that either reflected callous disregard for him as a human being or an inability to manage the situation.”
It shows that they did a meticulous investigation of the scene. She would rather they hurried and missed something?
The guy who held the press conference should have listed that FACTS FIRST
Eyewitness #1 said....
Eyewitness #2 said...
etc etc
and THEN said “based on all of this their decision was not to indict”
The way he said “we went through the process and the did not indict” right in the middle was stupid.. I fully expected the new whorenalists to cut off the rest of the news brief right there, and go out to the looting
The press can get a job.
He wasn't getting any deader.
Agree that the forensic work done on the street was thorough.
Hmm 4 hrs and 30 mins on the street. How many days has the giant thug’s grave been without a marker?
I wonder if she holds that same standard to Obama and Holder.
That is certainly more than enough reason to charge a cop with murder.
The bar for an indictment at the Grand Jury level is fairly low. The fact that they could not produce enough evidence to get an indictment means there is NO case here.
However, the race-baiters and other leftscum want a trial. Why? (1) To inflict pain on Office Wilson. (2) To create the opportunity for MORE riots when he is acquitted.
They are SCUM.
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