BamaD -> RE: The Grand Jury has decided in Ferguson (11/29/2014 6:54:57 AM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy The facts in the case only remain simple, neutral, and uncontroversial in your mind. In the actual world --- many people are upset and some are rioting about what happened. Most people I know have a hard time with: (1) The Criminal Justice System in Ferguson (read the ArchCity Defenders report.) (2) Wilson's conduct in this case. (3) The lack of actual facts about what happened. One witness (Brown) is dead, the other we can't count upon to be honest or objective about what happened. (4) The Prosecutor did not try to prosecute Wilson -- AKA treat him like a criminal defendant. Instead, he just put a pile of evidence in front of the jurors, nine of whom were white, BTW. None of Wilson's testimony was subject to cross examination. (5) This case is not about Brown so much as it is about racial profiling, the mass incaceration of black men, the higher percentage chance of being stopped or shot if you are black, the poor being subjected to fines, citations, and poverty inducing bench warrants, and the "fuck you" from the criminal justice system for the families of the victims. (The shooters walk away free.) The irony of this whole subject is how you are so absolutely tone-dead about it yet shoot your mouth off with arrogant, misplaced conclusions. So Wilson's guilt or innocence is not relevant, he should be convicted to change the system.
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