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It's pretty obvious that these kids were out looking to target white people..it wasn't a robbery, they weren't trying to steal his car, so why did they hit this guys car with a hammer?
After Brown fled the cop, Wilson should have called the police.
Maybe Wilson didn't call the police, because it became, personal.
Wilson was the police and backup was already on its way. It was his job to stop this thug.
Besides, Brown turned around and charged towards him. When you have a loaded gun drawn and someone is charging you, every law enforcement academy in the country teaches you to shoot. If you don't, you risk having that gun taken away from you and used against you or some other innocent person. Wilson did the right thing.
Sounds like the defense attorney could not prove Brown to be innocent......this just shows us how sore losers play the game. Acting like hitting a police officer will not advance into more conflict possibly being shot.
There is no defense attorney in a grand jury. It's supposed to be the county's Prosecuting Attorney trying to convince a jury that he as enough evidence to go forward and lay charges. In this case the pro-cop PA did everything he could to convince the grand jury to return a not true verdict.
Wilson was the police and backup was already on its way. It was his job to stop this thug.
Besides, Brown turned around and charged towards him. When you have a loaded gun drawn and someone is charging you, every law enforcement academy in the country teaches you to shoot. If you don't, you risk having that gun taken away from you and used against you or some other innocent person. Wilson did the right thing.
"Some legal experts asserted that McCulloch deflected responsibility for failing to indict Wilson, and created conditions in which the grand jury would not indict him either. Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard University, said that "As a strategic move, it was smart; he got what he wanted without being seen as directly responsible for the result," and called the case "the most unusual marshaling of a grand jury's resources I've seen in my 25 years as a lawyer and scholar." The New Yorker's legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, accused McCulloch for implementing "a document dump, an approach that is virtually without precedent in the law of Missouri or anywhere else". Other legal experts chided McCulloch for not challenging Wilson's account of the shooting."
"Over the last 17 years, I have represented dozens and dozens of clients who were subpoenaed to testify as witnesses at State and Federal Grand Juries regarding government investigations. A grand jury is a secret tribunal where a citizen is forced to answer questions by a prosecutor, often against their will. They are not allowed to have an attorney in the grand jury room to advise them while the questioning takes place. There is no Judge in the grand jury room to oversee the fairness or legitimacy of the proceedings. The prosecutor alone determines what evidence will be provided to the grand jurors, and that alone forms the basis of their deliberations and their determination regarding whether a felony indictment will issue. The prosecutor becomes the grand jurors’ friend: he controls their bathroom breaks, meals, and whether they can return to their work, families, and lives. The prosecutor, a politically elected position, works very closely with police every day and generally exhibits bias toward police as a result of this familiar relationship. The prosecutor holds enormous power over the outcome of a grand jury proceeding."
I'd be interested to know the ethnicity of the attackers. Black on white but of course it's not racially motivated. Only if it's white on black.
Too bad the media didn't cover this, except Fox, of course. And where were Holder, Jesse, Al, and Darth Barry after that incident? Probably playing golf.
Hey, man. All's I'm sayin' is that Wilson is a bumbling idiot that committed negligent homicide.
Very bad police work.
Bad police work is the issue.
Blacks are only the canary in the mine.
Well you've already said that Officer Wilson should
have either locked his doors and cowered in his car
or drove away from the danger. Both actions that
are cowardly and contrary to a law enforcement
officer's job. Suppose you were facing a linebacker
sized person charging you...What would you do?
After Brown fled the cop, Wilson should have called the police.
Maybe Wilson didn't call the police, because it became, personal.
He did call the (other) Police and then as an Officer himself did the job he was hired to do - "Protect & Serve".
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