They're reading off the evidence and witness accounts of the Brown shooting here:

[arcane1]

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc2/watch/live-video-grand-jury-announces-decision-in-michael-brown-case-361899587939

[arcane1]

1. Whoever that guy is, he basically told the protesters to keep it up.

That was unexpected.

[hollysmom]

2. that is the prosecutor.

Discredited all the witnesses, but Wilson got to study all the evidence before testifying. I also question some of the discrediting of the witnesses. They must have worked hard to create that evidence.

[arcane1]

4. He said they'll release the evidence, so there is that.

And though I always expect discrepancies in eyewitness testimony, what I want to know is the ratio.

[SummerSnow]

5. He has a bad reputation with the black community in Missouri. that along with

the 9 white and 3 black jury stacked the deck

[MaggieD]

11. That's how we should've known the fix was in

... Right from the get go. Remarkably some on DU denied that indication.

[truedelphi]

3. Apparently the decision will be that Officer Wilson was within his rights to

Defend himself.

I am brought back in memory to waking up one morning to find out that the night before, December 4th, 1969, Chicago police department had more or less en masse attacked the apartment where various Black Party members were living.

Headlines across all Chicago papers: Black Party members had opened fire on police.

It was decades before the truth came out - that in the hundreds of rounds of ammunition that were fired, only one was from a weapon owned by the Panthers, and that weapon fired exactly one bullet, which hit the ceiling, suggesting that whoever had fired it had been startled awake and began firing when realizing that they were under attack.

It is now believed that Fred Hampton was initially only wounded, but the police deliberately and fatally shot him while he lay on a gurney waiting to be taken to a hospital.

[arcane1]

6. I'm digging the questions; it's good to see THAT!

[hollysmom]

7. How is shooting wildly defending your self, he endangered the neighborhood

with his careless shooting.

[truedelphi]

8. Please re-read my statement - I think you mixed

Up various aspects of two separate incidents, both of which involved police going apeshit while the media and the legal system covered it up. And both of which involved African Americans being deprived of their liberty and their lives, without a citation or chance of trial.

[hollysmom]

9. my comment was about Wilson

because supposedly no one saw him shoot because they were taking cover (kind of indicates he was shooting wildly. But I have to admit your story brought me back to my original thought so many months ago - where if you injure them they get to tell their story, if you kill them you are the only one with a story.

[truedelphi]

10. I get what you are saying now.

I hadn't realized that other people had had to scramble to get out of the way. (or at least thought they might be getting hit.)

And your words are so true: where if you injure them they get to tell their story, if you kill them you are the only one with a story.

[hollysmom]

12. I really get unclear late at night

The prosecutor said there were no witnesses to the shooting because everyone was scrambling for cover - that would indicate to me, that Wilson was crazy shooting and that was a separate issue by itself, I know they never found all the bullets and they did find one in someone's front porch, which was to the side, not at Brown. That was how the prosecutor discredited the witnesses. When he started with that, I could see how that was not part of the "case" but pleading the defense.

[truedelphi]

13. So much wrong with Prosecuter's McCullough's approach.

If there had been some concern for justice, his approach would have been extremely different.

And once he started down the line of thinking and he explained that the pro-Officer Wilson witnesses had stories that were consistent, while the pro-Brown witnesses were inconsistent, well that just takes the cake, doesn' t it?

I can only imagine the pro-Wilson people being coached and re-coached, so that their stories ended up sounding straight, while the pro-Brown witnesses were mislead by various complex questioning and a lot of spin by McCullough.