Posted on 11/05/2014 2:19:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Any minute now, a grand jury is expected to decide if whether or not police officer Darren Wilson is to be charged for the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the Missouri suburb of Ferguson four months ago.
Forensic, autopsy and investigation reports released in October indicate the six-year veteran cop will not be indicted, an event some say will cause an outbreak in riots similar to the ones in 1992 when several Los Angeles cops were acquitted in relation to a taped beating of Rodney King.
"The LA riots with Rodney King is what should be expected to happen in Ferguson," law professor Jeannine Bell, of Indiana University Maurer School of Law, told CBS St. Louis. "Brown's death was very detrimental to the community. The individuals who are protesting now have suggested in speaking to the press given the ongoing protests in Ferguson that that could happen."
Ferguson has already seen scores of protests, both peaceful and violent, along with looting after the unarmed black teenager was killed by Wilson, who is white, on Aug. 9. In the meantime, Missouri and Ferguson police are bracing themselves for a possible "perfect storm" after the grand jury makes a decision, Bell said.
But Bell also said law enforcement in Ferguson, where most residents are black and most of the police force is white, don't seem to be doing all they can to quell the racial tensions, namely their unwavering support for the cop who killed Brown.
"When the Justice Department had to tell the police department to not wear arm bands saying 'I Am Darren Wilson,' that suggested a lot," Bell told CBS St. Louis. "It's not surprising that that would make things worse. You're announcing to the crowd that you're like someone who shot and killed someone who was not armed."
The grand jury results are expected sometime this month.
I keep a spreadsheet, otherwise I wouldn't know either.
If you sit down with a pencil and piece of paper, can you figure it out?
Let them...
stay out of town until they are tired... bulldoze the mess and let them live with it.
announce it the day before welfare checks arrive
That picture puts the article into context.
Oulimata Ba is an expert!
Izat sideshow BOB!!?
They need to order about 25 TVs from Proptronics, and hang em up! :-)
Just do it and get the hell over with.
and in other news, LE has found alive the young woman kidnapped in PA several days ago. Know the young woman’s Family is overjoyed.
I bought my first just after the 1968 riots!
Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, Missing Woman, Reportedly Found Alive In Maryland. Congratulation to her Family and Congratulations to LE that she was found alive.
Thankfully, the new LeBron sneaker release was delayed. Would have created a perfect storm.
The individuals who are protesting now have suggested in speaking to the press given the ongoing protests in Ferguson that that could happen.”
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Jeannine is not very articulate for a law professor, is she?
The writer of this piece is also an idiot.
Doesn’t Missouri have a law against inciting to riot?
Professor Jeannine Bell
http://knau.org/post/justice-department-downplays-hate-crime-law-expectation
Justice Department Downplays Hate Crime Law Expectation
Wed May 2, 2012
EXCERPT
JOHNSON: So it’s hard to prove a violation of the law, which explains the small number of cases. And experts say there’s another reason it’s rare: the Attorney General has to certify there’s a special reason for the federal government to be involved every time he wants to use the hate crimes law. But the new law does give federal authorities some wiggle room. Jeannine Bell teaches law at Indiana University.
JEANNINE BELL: The new legislation creates the ability for the Justice Department to provide funds to localities that are engaged in hate crime prosecution.
JOHNSON: Not just money, but expertise, that federal authorities have been deploying in Florida and in Oklahoma.
NAH, I’m bettin’ it won’t happen!
The story got stale waiting for an election. The prosecutor failed to deliver on schedule for the Dems and now there’s no up side for a riot.
The money just isn’t in this one. Mooche isn’t offering to buy them any fried chicken for rioting after they failed to vote.
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Time to pull out the big guns, and start using them.
Riot? Come on down suckers...
The local Ferguson government should publicize a large purchase of body bags. Let those who think they can game this with no down side think about it.
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