Posted on 11/25/2014 11:44:28 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Ferguson reminds us that we still have a race problem in America. But the face of this problem is not Darren Wilson’s. It’s Bob McCulloch’s.
Wilson, the Missouri police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, is the target of most public ire. But no responsible person thought Wilson’s killing of Michael Brown was premeditated. Even if prosecutors tried him on lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter, they might well have come up empty – and most people would have accepted that result of a fair trial.
What causes the outrage, and the despair, is the joke of a grand-jury proceeding run under the auspices of McCulloch, the St. Louis County prosecutor. In September, I wrote that it appeared he wasn’t even trying to get an indictment; he had a long record of protecting police in such cases, and his decision not to recommend a specific charge to the grand jury essentially guaranteed there would be no indictment.
When McCulloch announced the inevitable result Monday night, he prefaced it by blaming the press and social media for whipping up emotions in the case with inaccurate information. He went on to ridicule witnesses who had given inconsistent testimony. He hid behind the grand jurors, as if he hadn’t orchestrated their decision with the finesse of conductor Christoph Eschenbach: “Anyone suggesting that somehow it’s just not a full and fair process is just unfair to these people” who “gave up their lives” to deliberate.....
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Dana is a POS.
So Millbank is saying that the DA should have brought charges that he knew would not result in conviction. Basically a malicious prosecution just to attempt to appease the politically correct.
Only a creature of the slimy political swamps of Washington like Milbank thinks that way.
Maybe they needed the disbarred Mike Nifong.
People who haven’t committed a crime don’t go on trial.....even if the liberals want them too!!!
That is evidence of living in an elitist, DC establishment bubble. “Public ire” = “cocktail party ire”
What’s the matter Milbank? Didn’t get the lynching you wanted? Milbank, it is the chip on your shoulder is weighing you down.
One Ferguson thug was shot while assaulting a police officer and the other thousands of thugs turn out to burn the town down.......as usual the idiots burned other blacks businesses.....like they are smart enough to know the difference!!
Self-respect is what kids need to have, and they know it has to be earned, not given to them freely because they demand it. When it is too freely given, it loses its value--and (I truly believe) most kids who become bullies are just testing those around them to see if anyone else cares enough about them to spend the time and energy it takes to help them "learn to earn" it!
I just saw video of The Killer Giant's parents right after last night's announcement.
Total Class < /sarc >
What sort of truly nasty imitation of a normal human being...
a) Relishes in expressing the ultimate grief in as public an arena as possible?
b) Lace it with an endless string of obscene expletives?
c) Scream exhortations to "Burn the $#@$^&*& Down??"
” I just saw video of The Killer Giant’s parents right after last night’s announcement.
Total Class < /sarc >”
The father’s pants were half off. Pathetic.
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“...if he hadn’t orchestrated their decision with the finesse of conductor....”
So what is it? Did McCulloch lead the grand jury like a conductor, or did he take himself out of the process, and let them have multiple choices without his direction? After being set up with a belabored metaphor, we are directed into ambiguity.
The grand jury got the facts, and they decided those facts were not sufficient to bring an indictment. Milbank doesn’t have all the facts, and he confuses social justice with real justice. If the case were reversed, say a black cop had defended himself against a violent white teen, Milbank would be sipping on a latte, rather than race baiting with nonsense like this.
Dana you don’t just indict people for no reason other than the Bro’s is upset about it. :-)
In the election of 1864, George B. McClellan (D) ran against Lincoln on a platform of ending the Civil War by armistice with the Confederacy, readmission of the South into the Union, ending slavery and repatriation to Africa of all southern black slaves, incrementally, by 1900. This would have given the South 35 years to close out slavery without completely destroying their economy, and it would have allowed the South to free their slaves without then having to live side by side with them which was what Southern whites wanted more than anything.
What a different country we would now have if McClellan had of won that election, and some say he really did.
You’re right. I can sense the beltway snobbery in the article.
Welcome to Obama’s America where his hope and change liberal ideology is again reflected in the ruins of Ferguson.
The failure of his leadership is evidenced in everything he has touched. Aided and abetted by the Democratic party, he has divided America into many political and racial groups. He has served the minority black community at the expense of the majority of the others. He has caused such a division in America that it may take generations to repair.
Under his leadership and administration, the Constitution and rule of law has been abridged by executive order, judicial legislation from the bench, exclusion of special interests, outright lies, personal opinions, and emotional influences. I remember when Justice used to be blind.
The facts of this incident clearly indicate the grand jury had no basis to indict the officer and I think most Americans agree with the grand jury. Unfortunately, the black community wants to imply this incident was racially motivated. If they remove the racial differences from this incident they will see clearly what everyone else sees.
There was no motive to kill a black person. Mr. Brown could have been White, Hispanic, Indian, or other ethnic race and he would have been shot and killed in the assault. I believe justice was done because they could not prove racial motivation was a factor.
BTW, if Mr. Brown had been half black, would the officer have been partially motivated.
Rewritten as if Milbank was an honest reporter.
“”He was charged with 1st degree down through involuntary manslaughter””
Make that everything from 1st degree down through unlawful discharge of a weapon.
I;m SHOCKED!!! How did you wind up with McCaskill??
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