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Ferguson questions swirl: If it’s about finding facts, why no trial? (Hold on, she's serious!)
Reuters Opinion ^ | November 25, 2014 | Allison Silver, executive editor of Reuters Opinion.

Posted on 11/25/2014 12:26:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The St. Louis Prosecutor Robert McCullough made a series of highly unusual decisions on Monday. He was reportedly seeking to defuse the highly charged situation in the wake of a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer killing an unarmed black teenager.

He did not succeed.

Protests ignited in Ferguson, fanning flames, literal and figurative, throughout the night. Demonstrations spread from New York City to Oakland, California. Even as President Barack Obama spoke to the nation, cable news channels showed him on a split screen with the violent protests. He did not even get three-quarters of the shot.

McCullough was continuing the string of leadership miscalculations that have been the rule for Ferguson ever since Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown on Aug. 9.

Jelani Cobb astutely analyzes this in The New Yorker’s Daily Comment on Tuesday:

From the outset, the great difficulty has been discerning whether the authorities are driven by malevolence or incompetence. The Ferguson police let Brown’s body lie in the street for four and a half hours, an act that either reflected callous disregard for him as a human being or an inability to manage the situation. The release of Darren Wilson’s name was paired with the release of a video purportedly showing Brown stealing a box of cigarillos from a convenience store, although Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson later admitted that Wilson was unaware of the incident when he confronted the young man. (McCullough contradicted this in his statement on the non-indictment.) … Despite the sizable police presence, few officers were positioned on the stretch of West Florissant Avenue where Brown was killed. The result was that damage to the area around the police station was sporadic and short-lived, but Brown’s neighborhood burned.....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: darrenwilson; ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri
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1 posted on 11/25/2014 12:26:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We should indict her and then figure out if she’s guilty of anything.


2 posted on 11/25/2014 12:27:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was listening to a talking head interview an “expert” who said the Ferguson prosecutor should have just presented the minimum evidence necessary to the Grand Jury to get an indictment, then the rest of the information could come out at trial. The prosecutor was negligent in performing a “document dump” on the Grand Jury instead.

Really?


3 posted on 11/25/2014 12:29:54 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s how liberals work today isn’t it? “We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it” or “Legalize illegals and deal with the open border later”


4 posted on 11/25/2014 12:30:01 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Not all Muslims are terrorists but all Muslims are potential terrorists.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about having only black police and black-only courts deal with districts that are majority black?

You know - separate but equal?


5 posted on 11/25/2014 12:31:51 PM PST by PGR88
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So, the prosecuters should have acted unethically and only presented the perjured testimony so they could get an indictment and go on to a trial they knew they would lose?

Six years of this lying, dishonest, lawbreaking regime has really corroded this country.

6 posted on 11/25/2014 12:34:42 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He was reportedly seeking to defuse the highly charged situation in the wake of a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer killing an unarmed black teenager.

Er, right. Because that's the remit of every prosecutor/DA, isn't it?

7 posted on 11/25/2014 12:34:51 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s be real clear and shorten the authors point.

“The DA should have found something to charge the cop with. Hell, you can indict a ham sandwich. What was the problem here? I mean, we indicted a rugby team on total lies, evidence omission and PR extortion. What happened here?”


8 posted on 11/25/2014 12:34:57 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POTUS shall now be referred to as POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A grand jury, even in the hands of ACLU `tard attorney will indict a box of chicken McNuggets.
AS the libtards like to say, `There was no there there.” Rooters should know this, but of course they plead stupid.


9 posted on 11/25/2014 12:36:13 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: PGR88
How about having only black police and black-only courts deal with districts that are majority black?

Like Sharia courts. Hmmm. Interesting thought. Only blacks are allowed to use the Sharia Court system. I'm ok with that if that's what they want.

10 posted on 11/25/2014 12:36:17 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POTUS shall now be referred to as POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1. Allison Silver receives article from white house via secure server.
2. Adds name as Author, publishes.
3. Gets nominated for Pulitzer.


11 posted on 11/25/2014 12:39:12 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think it’s about time people re consider the motivations of the agitators.

To many of these people, they are in an openly declared race war with American main stream society of all races and they are using the system to spread propaganda to further their aims to win the war they have started.

There is no honesty or objectivity at work here and the agitators and their allies in the MSM are not honest brokers trying to fairly report the news.

Even after the tragedy last night in Ferguson, guys like George Stephanopolis are granting interviews to the community organizers who planned and executed the riots and who trained the rioters to continue their propaganda campaign of No Justice, No Peace which since they can and never will be satisfied that they have been granted suitable justice simply means that they are justified for their riots and will keep on rioting in the name of unobtainable cosmic justice.


12 posted on 11/25/2014 12:39:37 PM PST by rdcbn
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“The Ferguson police let Brown’s body lie in the street for four and a half hours, an act that either reflected callous disregard for him as a human being or an inability to manage the situation.”

It shows that they did a meticulous investigation of the scene. She would rather they hurried and missed something?


13 posted on 11/25/2014 12:39:53 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The guy who held the press conference should have listed that FACTS FIRST

Eyewitness #1 said....

Eyewitness #2 said...

etc etc

and THEN said “based on all of this their decision was not to indict”

The way he said “we went through the process and the did not indict” right in the middle was stupid.. I fully expected the new whorenalists to cut off the rest of the news brief right there, and go out to the looting


14 posted on 11/25/2014 12:43:08 PM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The rights of the press to report on a sensational trial is not something that should be considered in any grand jury proceedings.

The press can get a job.

15 posted on 11/25/2014 12:45:18 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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The Ferguson police let Brown’s body lie in the street for four and a half hours

He wasn't getting any deader.

16 posted on 11/25/2014 12:46:33 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Agree that the forensic work done on the street was thorough.

Hmm 4 hrs and 30 mins on the street. How many days has the giant thug’s grave been without a marker?


17 posted on 11/25/2014 12:50:26 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder if she holds that same standard to Obama and Holder.


18 posted on 11/25/2014 12:53:54 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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The Ferguson police let Brown’s body lie in the street for four and a half hours,

That is certainly more than enough reason to charge a cop with murder.

19 posted on 11/25/2014 1:00:28 PM PST by Raycpa
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The bar for an indictment at the Grand Jury level is fairly low. The fact that they could not produce enough evidence to get an indictment means there is NO case here.

However, the race-baiters and other leftscum want a trial. Why? (1) To inflict pain on Office Wilson. (2) To create the opportunity for MORE riots when he is acquitted.

They are SCUM.


20 posted on 11/25/2014 1:01:15 PM PST by piytar (No government has ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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