Open Season on Black Men explained

[Sistrin]

Nothing was stopping them except the prosecutor that basically doing everything in his power to tell them not to indict.

This case should never have gone before a grand jury to begin with. In this case a police officer did his job and in the course of doing so had to defend himself. The only reason this went to a grand jury was to placate the race-mongers and because Governor Jay Nixon personally convicted Wilson before the scene had been fully investigated.

If anyone deserves to lose their job over this, it is Nixon, who sat on his hands and, purposefully, in my opinion, failed to deploy the National Guard on the night of the verdict thus allowing the riots to grow to the levels they did.

 

[variant]

This case should never have gone before a grand jury to begin with.

You seem to agree with the prosecutors assessment.

My point is that using a grand jury to try to make that decision for you is flatly political in this case, and at no point should a grand jury be a mock trial for the sake of making the decision seem "independent", to say such is a mockery.

 

[Golden Arches]

It tells me that you don't know what you're talking about.

McCulloch's mother, brother, uncle, and cousin all worked for the St. Louis police department, in the past he has not prosecuted officers for killing criminals, and he has explicitly said that "[he] couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing."

It's also worth noting that the prosecutor’s office presented evidence to the grand jury they received it, instead of waiting until the St. Louis County Police Department and FBI had actually completed their investigation, which is unorthodox.

I can kind of understand where accusations of bias would be coming from.

 

[NightHawkeye]

McCulloch's mother, brother, uncle, and cousin all worked for the St. Louis police department, in the past he has not prosecuted officers for killing criminals, and he has explicitly said that "[he] couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing."

It's also worth noting that the prosecutor’s office presented evidence to the grand jury they received it, instead of waiting until the St. Louis County Police Department and FBI had actually completed their investigation, which is unorthodox.

I can kind of understand where accusations of bias would be coming from.

Ahh ... bias against Holder's biased department of injustice.

Good luck prosecuting that one.

 

[GarfieldJL]

While the prosecutor does have that family history, that could indicate bias, he didn't make the decision. He put this before a grand jury for a reason, and presented all the information that had been gathered to the grand jury, so that there would be some objectivity on this case.

The grand jurors can ask questions in the court room, so the argument that the prosecutor steered this in a manner that no charges would be pressed is rather hard to believe.