They went out of their way NOT to indict Wilson. We all know this.

[MrScorpio]

[freshwest]

1. I did not know that. Thanks, MrScorpio.

[joshcryer]

2. Unquestionably.

[MaggieD]

3. No doubt

And by the way I'm the older white chick that posted the reality about white privilege on DI that you responded to with "damn skippy."

I'm more pissed off about this ferguson thing than I was about the mid terms. This is soooo fucked up I can't even fully articulate it right now.

Here's what I have right now - we are a nation of cowards. Cowardly cops that kill unarmed people. Cowards about Iraq, Ebola, ISIS, Iran, OMG not white people, women who might swallow men whole with their sexy vagina. Gawd, the list goes on. But it all boils down to cowardly irrational fear. IMHO.

[cali]

4. Missouri law makes it almost impossible to indict a police officer using deadly force

The GJ was just for show:

<snip>

Roger Goldman, an expert on criminal procedure and constitutional law at the Saint Louis University School of Law, says that a long-standing Missouri statute gives police officers wide latitude to shoot to kill. The law states they are justified in doing so if they "reasonably believe" their target "has committed or attempted to commit a felony" and deadly force is "immediately necessary to effect the arrest." According to Goldman, the existence of this law—despite a 1985 Supreme Court ruling suggesting it may be unconstitutional—is one reason why "it's particularly difficult to get grand juries to indict or prosecutors to even take the case to the grand jury in the first place."

But with a case like Wilson's, weeks of high-profile public protests likely pressured the prosecutor's office to present a case to a grand jury, says Delores Jones-Brown, a law professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "This way the prosecutor cannot be accused of having made a unilateral biased decision." Still, the prosecutor has a lot of sway in how a case is presented to the grand jury, she noted.

<snip>

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/darren-wilson-grand-jury-decision-ferguson-police-prosecutions

[sunnystarr]

5. Well at least now we know

why it was important to have that story about being punched in the face and attacked by Brown. Those cigars would only be a misdemeanor and they needed a felony. If Brown had actually punched him I would expect at least a bloody nose .. him being such a "big giant" and that poor officer feeling like a 5 year old (even though he was same height and weight). Instead we see two red cheeks 'cause somehow magically Brown missed that big nose.

This is all such bs I just wanna puke.

[leftynyc]

6. The family could bring a

civil rights case where the rules are much different. While police in MO are, by law, able to shoot at a fleeing subject who is unarmed, you can't do that under federal rules. I know it's not enough but I don't think Wilson should be able to live the rest of his life thinking he did the right thing here. A judgement that effects his future earnings - so that he can think about it for the rest of his pathetic life - should be on the table.

[Gothmog]

7. Agreed

[azmom]

8. It's obvious to anyone

Paying attention.