St.Louis U. invites McCulluch to speak at symposium per Police practices after Ferguson...
Students Object. (salin asks whoever put the symposium together: what were you thinking?)
Saint Louis University Students Object To Campus Speech By Ferguson Prosecutor
AP By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An upcoming law school lecture by St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch is drawing criticism from some Saint Louis University students and professors who object to his handling of the investigation of Michael Brown's shooting death in Ferguson.
McCulloch is set to speak at a Feb. 20 law school event on police practices after Ferguson. He'll be joined at the student law review symposium by County Police Chief Jon Belmar and social scientists from five other universities, including American, South Carolina and Wake Forest.
Members of the Black Law Students Association and others have asked the school's dean, former state Supreme Court chief justice Michael Wolff, to rescind the invitation. They point to legal and ethics challenges to McCulloch's tactics before a grand jury that declined to indict former Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in the August death of Brown, 18, who was black and unarmed.
McCulloch has acknowledged calling witnesses whom he said "clearly lied" to the grand jury, including a woman who claimed to have seen Brown charge at Wilson. The elected prosecutor and two assistants also face a disciplinary complaint alleging that they provided grand jurors with improper instructions on the legal standards for use of force by police.
more at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/09/ferguson-prosecutor-speech-saint-louis-university_n_6649218.html?utm_hp_ref=education&ir=Education