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The Ferguson grand jury was never intended to bring an indictment
St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch
When you think of a grand jury, you think of a fair system in which the prosecutor makes his or her best case for bringing someone to trial for committing a crime, presenting the best evidence in a coherent narrative that the jury can then weigh to determine whether or not there is probable cause to try that suspectto indict them. That's not what happened in St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch's grand jury investigation in Officer Darrell Wilson's shooting of Michael Brown.
"Everything that's been collected, every statement that has ever been made, it will all be here for you," McCulloch said on the first day, August 20. "You need to keep that open mind."
In other words, he didn't want his fingerprints on the ultimate decision. But the choices he made in how the evidence was presented and in how his prosecutors behaved when questioning witnesses definitely reflect how he steered this decision. Consider the questioning of Witness #42, who testified, "I didn't deem it to be a hostile situation to where the officer needed to have his gun raised. [ ] Mike was coming like, 'stop shooting' And he's shooting him and kept shooting him. I'm like, he don't pose no threat. [ ] He was ready to give himself up." Here's what Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kathi Alizadeh asked him about that testimony: "The first time you talked to the FBI, which was a week after this happened, you told them a story that had a bunch of lies, isn't that right?"
more:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/ferguson-grand-jury-purpose-not-indictmenthttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/26/1347684/-The-Ferguson-grand-jury-was-never-intended-to-bring-an-nbsp-indictment#
Cartoon: Maybe let’s stop killing black kids?
?1417018147Nation Doesn’t Know If It Can Take Another Bullshit Speech About Healing
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-doesnt-know-if-it-can-take-another-bullshit,37541/
Juan Cole: Race Inequality Between U.S. Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers
Juan Cole
Race Inequality Between U.S. Whites and African-Americans by the Numbers:
http://www.sentencingproject.org/images/photo/Incarceration%20Rate%20by%20Gender%20and%20Race.bmp
Here:
http://www.juancole.com/2014/11/inequality-americans-numbers.html
Being A Cop Has Never Been Safer
http://reason.com/blog/2014/11/24/killing-of-police-officers-down-for-seco?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29
Transcripts show #DarrenWilson lied to the grand jury
Transcripts show #DarrenWilson lied to the grand jury
By: Masoninblue Wednesday November 26, 2014 4:55 am
Officer Darren Wilson testified that he knew about the theft of a box of cigarillos from the Ferguson Market, before encountering Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson. However, Officer Wilsons supervisor testified that he spoke to Wilson after the shooting, and that Wilson did not know anything about the stealing call. In an apparent effort to turn unreasonable actions into a reasonable excuse to pull the gun out, Wilson connected the stop to the call about the in-store theft.
First we have a transcript of his grand jury testimony:
Q: Okay. Did you get any other calls between the time of the sick baby call and your interaction with Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson?
A: While on the sick case call, a call came out for a stealing in progress from the local market on West Florissant, that the suspects traveling toward QT. I didnt hear the entire call, I was on my portable radio, which isnt exactly the best. I did hear that a suspect was wearing a black shirt and that a box of Cigarillos was stolen.
Q: And this was your call or you just heard the call?
A: It was not my call. I heard the call.
Q: Some other officers were dispatched to that call.
A: I believe two others were.
Q: Was it a call you were going to go toalso?
A: No.
Q: So you werent really geared to handle that call?
A: No.
/snip/
A: As I approached them, I stopped a couple of feet in front of Johnson as they are walking toward me, I am going toward them. As Johnson came along my drivers side mirror I said, why dont you guys walk on the sidewalk? He kept walking, as he is walking, he said, we are almost to our destination.
Q: Do you think he used those words destination, we are almost to our destination?
A: Yes, maam. He said we are almost to our destination and he pointed this direction over my vehicle. So like in a northeasternly (sic) direction. As he did that, he kept walking and Brown was starting to come around the mirror and as he came around the mirror I said, well, whats wrong with the sidewalk? Brown then replied, um it has vulgar language.
Q: You can say it, say it.
A: Brown then replied, fuck what you have to say. And when he said that, it drew my attention totally to Brown. It was very unusual and not expected response from a simple request.
When I start looking at Brown, first thing I notice is in his right hand, his hand is full of Cigarillos. I looked in my mirror, I did a double check that Johnson was wearing a black shirt. These are the two from the stealing.
And they kept walking, as I said, they never once stopped, never got on the sidewalk, they stayed in the middle of the road.
So I got on my radio and Frank 21 is my call sign that day, I said Frank 21 Im on Canfield with two, send me another car.
I then placed my car in reverse and backed up and I backed up just past them and then angled my vehicle, the back of my vehicle to kind of cut them off, kind of to keep them somewhat contained.
[GJ, Vol. V pp. 202-209]
Second, now we have a transcript of his direct supervisors testimony. Sergeant LNU* responded to the scene within minutes after the shooting and was the first person to interview him.
Q: Did he know about it? Did he talk about knowing about the stealing?
A: He did not know anything about the stealing call.
Q: He told you he did not know anything about the stealing?
A: He did not know anything. He was out on another call in the apartment complex adjacent to Canfield Green.
[GJ, Vol. V, pp. 52-53]
Question by a GJ member
Q: Now, my question to you is this. Are you saying that because he told you he didnt know about it or are you saying that because he didnt mention It to you when you were talking to him?
A: He did not mention it to me again. I learned about it at a later time.
Q: Has he ever told you, yeah, I didnt know anything about what happened up at the Ferguson Market?
A: Yes, he told me that in subsequent conversations.
Q: He told you he didnt know about there being a stealing at the Ferguson Market?
A: Correct
[GJ, Vol. V, p. 58]
The shooting happened on Saturday, August 9, 2014. Wilson was not questioned by anyone else until after he conferred with his lawyer at the station house. Both witnesses testified before the grand jury on September 16, 2014, which was 5 weeks after the shooting.
My question is, how can anyone believe Officer Darren Wilson regarding any material issue of fact when he lied about the reason he stopped the boys to portray them as criminal thieves?
MORE:
http://my.firedoglake.com/blog/2014/11/26/over-easy-transcripts-show-darrenwilson-lied-to-the-grand-jury/
"GOBBLEGATE"
Breaking via Rex Huppke at The Chicago Tribune:
?1356968585
Emperor Obama: palling around
with a juicy, succulent terrorist?
That's right, just days before Thanksgiving, Obama and his liberal cronies will grant amnesty to a presumably delicious turkey, denying the creature its God-given right to be eaten by a patriotic American family. [ ]
Clearly, Obama must be stopped before America is irrevocably changed.
I'm calling on all members of Congress who believe in freedom to halt this imperial president by suing him, threatening to impeach him and refusing to confirm any of his judicial or executive nominees. So basically just keep doing what you're doing.
As for the rest of you, please take to social media and e-protest Obama's unlawful activity by using the hashtag #ProtestThePardon.
By tweeting at the top of our lungs, our collective voice might be loud enough to put the president in his place (prison) and the turkeys in theirs (on large serving trays).
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/26/1347379/-Cheers-and-Jeers-Wednesday
....Meanwhile in white America, two cute angels are buying coffee
Darren Wilson says Mike Brown "looked like a demon."
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Meanwhile in white America, two cute angels are buying coffee
https://twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/status/537369332616294400
OBAMA: "The problem is not just a Ferguson problem, it is an American problem.”
"If any part of the American community doesn't feel welcomed or treated fairly, that's something that puts all of us at risk, and we all have to be concerned about," he said. "The problem is not just a Ferguson problem, it is an American problem.MORE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/25/obama-ferguson_n_6221766.html
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