Ferguson officer appears before grand jury on shooting of Michael Brown

[alp227]

Source: STL Post-Dispatch

CLAYTON • Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson testified here for almost four hours Tuesday in front of the St. Louis County grand jury investigating his shooting Aug. 9 of Michael Brown, a source with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday.

Wilson was not obligated to appear, and also has spoken with St. Louis County investigators twice and federal investigators once, the source said. The source said Wilson was “cooperative.”

A spokesman for Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch’s office, Ed Magee, refused to comment Wednesday on who had testified.

The shooting of Brown, 18, who was black and unarmed, by Wilson, who is white, gave rise to racially charged protests and looting. Some activists have threatened more of the same if the grand jury does not indict Wilson.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ferguson-officer-appears-before-grand-jury-on-shooting-of-michael/article_74022ab8-756f-5e1d-81b3-3c577f1e9208.html

[barbtries]

1. i hope the DOJ is all over this case

because i don't see any justice coming out of st louis or ferguson. why is this all so secret? it just screams cover up as far as i can tell.

[joshdawg]

3. You are probably correct.

I see a no-bill coming from the grand jury.

[freshwest]

16. They went door to door to get witness testimony and are preparing their case, likely.

My guess is that Ferguson will end up under DOJ control before this is all over when they find a sufficient amount of abuse that can't be denied.

Not only Holder but White House aids have been there, along with dozens of FBI agents getting the goods on that crooked outfit there.

Definite coverup from the city and PD there. But the FBI is going into everything, I suppose. All the cases, like the guy who was beaten and charged with getting blood on the officer's uniforms who beat him.

And many other cases will come to the light. It will establish a pattern of practice that should enable the DOJ to take over and keep them under their thumb.

Of course this process all depends on November. If the GOP gets the Senate, they will defund the FBI along with every other agency as planned. They have decimated them through the sequester and every other cut they can finagle.

And the state government is controlled by the GOP, despite the Governor being a Democrat. If any are up for election, they need to booted right away. Ferguson fixed the local elections to April, not November, no doubt to discourage the voters. But they can vote some of that GOP out of the state house soon.

[barbtries]

20. i hope it plays out just like

that best case scenario. the whole damn set up sees the light of day. some justice is achieved, and things do not go back to the way they were.

[gordianot]

2. Wilson did not have to appear and the Grand Jury gets to ask questions.

The Grand Jury also decides who is prosecuted. As a direct result of this shooting others died in the Protest. The dull Police Chief of Ferguson did briefly discuss Wilson as well as speculated why he shot Michael Brown which given the secrecy seems odd. I just do not understand why a defense attorney would want a client to speak to the Grand Jury. This may turn out very different than people expect.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. I suspect because ...

the defense attorney is watching what the prosecutor is doing (not being an advocate for the State/Victim) and gambling that the GJ pool reflects the (racial) sentiment of the county ... that MB was a thug, the cop was justified, and that Ferguson has NO racial issues.

I have never (that I can think of) where a prosecutor (on similar facts) went to a GJ, without having charged the defendant ... it gives the lay body guidance as to the State's case ... without it, the GJ (again, of lay people) could return an indictment on an impossible/inappropriate bill, e.g., 1st degree murder.

The prosecutor, in this case, is either chickenshit; or, has placing the fix.

[freebrew]

5. "The prosecutor, in this case, is either chickenshit; or, has placing the fix."

My guess would be all of the above.

[gordianot]

11. I hear the prosecutor has Statewide political ambitions as a Democrat.

So he is going to dump that for an obviously racist Police Department and an obviously panicked out of control cop (whose entire career has been in racist Police Departments). I would hope voter apathy is at risk in St. Louis County.

[Ino]

13. This is why...

from the OP link...

“You don’t always want to preview what your defense would be at such an early stage,” Rogers [a defense attorney not connected with the case] explained. He added, “I would only consider allowing my client to testify at a grand jury proceeding if I was convinced that the prosecutor presenting the evidence to the (grand jury) was convinced that his testimony would help them reach the decision not to indict.”

Defense attorney is convinced that the prosecutor is after a decision to not indict his client.

[WilliamPitt]

6. Is the majority of the article text blocked out for anyone else?

Odd.

[L0oniX]

8. Yea it's blocked out. It's not even there in the page source code.

[Travelman]

10. You have to answer the survey question(s).

It's basically a form of advertising. Seems to be getting more popular with news sites. Answer a couple of survey questions and then the text appears.

Doubtless your answer as to whether you have taken Paxil in the last year is getting recorded somewhere....

[Aerows]

15. And if you answered yes

Did you experience any of the following side effects? Check all that apply.

Irritability
Nausea
Incontinence
Waking up in random places not knowing how you got there
Selling all your worldly possessions in preparation for the end
A sudden desire to be nude in public places

I swear the laundry lists of side effects from some of the medications they advertise sound worse than what they are trying to "cure".

[Travelman]

18. Panexa. Ask your doctor for a reason to take it.

Even though whoever put this up years ago has since taken it down, it still cracks me up every time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051126231034/http://www.panexa.com/

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[Aerows]

19. LMFAO!

I particularly liked for patients with two separate feet (2SF).

[barbtries]

21. imagine waking up in the middle of the night

and hearing that being read out loud. followed by "ask your doctor about panexa for you!"

[alp227]

17. LOL. Just lie on those surveys.

At last the site is not pay walled.

[L0oniX]

7. I predict that if they don't prosecute Wilson eventually people are going to be shooting cops.

Seen the recent news about some dude that shot cops at their station?

[strawberries]

12. Cops have always

been a great shooting target

[starroute]

14. The guy who shot those cops was a survivalist gun-nut

Poor black people are not about to start shooting cops. They're more likely to riot and trash their own neighborhoods because they know what happens if they turn their aggression outwards. But I agree with you that if Wilson isn't prosecuted bad things will happen.

[eggplant]

9. Gotta get that word "looting" in there somewhere.

Despite it having nothing to do with gunning someone down in cold blood.