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.

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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.....

[Graybeard58]

To many of these people, they are in an openly declared race war with American main stream society of all races

No war was ever won by only playing defense. Maybe it's time to go on the offense.

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

We should indict ALL of the Leftist media for making this what it is!

[CodeToad]

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

Perfect response.

[rdcbn]

To many of these people, they are in an openly declared race war with American main stream society of all races
No war was ever won by only playing defense. Maybe it’s time to go on the offense.

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I’d settle for Americans realizing that war has been declared on them and taking it seriously

[TigersEye]

Jonathan Gruber knows Allison Silver.

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

And two years remain for more damage to be done. Sigh...

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ping

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[Swordmaker]

What a web of dis-information this writer is weaving. Just like the web of dis-information that was woven in the days after the shooting. The body was not moved because it was part of an active investigation of a homicide, a homicide that involved a police shooting. In Stockton, CA, where there was a hostage shot in a horrendous bank robbery a few months ago, the hostage's body was left in place for many hours as the investigation proceeded to assure that all facts were collected, despite the family knowing who she was, where she was, and how horribly she had been killed. . . on a public street. The police did the best they could under exceedingly bad circumstances. Moving the body would obfuscate the evidence.

In the Stockton case, it turned out the woman had indeed been hit by police bullets as well. Nobody is rioting, nobody is burning businesses, nobody is demanding the officers involved be indicted. That woman was truly an innocent.

[SgtHooper]

Stupid twit. She knows darn well that the grand jury is allowed to hear far more evidence than a jury, while much of that same evidence would NOT be allowed at trial. Thus, the litigators are more free to bias, misrepresent, twist, and all that other crap to muddy up the facts and the narrative being presented to the listener (jury), like the MSM!!!