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In reply to the discussion: I think Wilson is a bad cop, quite possibly a racist, but I also think this was an unwinnable case. [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)Apparently he has had four other cases against police officers that never reached the indictment stage, either.
I think McCulloch's strong police connections caused him to plan to throw this case from the very beginning, not because the case is unwinnable, but because he is prejudiced in favor of the police. His own father was a police officer who was killed in the line of duty by a black suspect.
What he did do was manipulation; he created the aura of a fake trial by bringing all the evidence in, yet, unlike a real trial, there was no cross-examination of witnesses. Wilson's testimony was unchallenged. According to reports, much of the pro-Michael Brown material was challenged in these hearings. McCulloch became a defacto defense attorney rather than the prosecutor he is supposed to be.
and African-Americans wonder if the justice system is stacked against them ....