NorthernLights Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 The officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson will not face a trial it has been announced tonight. Should be a tense few hours ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Does anyone know why they waited until the evening to announce the decision? From the footage they've just shown as breaking news here in the US, the shit is about to go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Did everyone see that list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States have a little click. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Shot unarmed chap six times. Not murder. Anyone but a cop doing the shooting and that's 20+ in the slammer. 'Murica. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Twitter reports looting of a Dollar Store. That's surely doing looting wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jock001 Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 There's clearly reasonable doubt at least. Even if they put the cops on trial, it would never end up with a conviction in an honest court. Also, there's pretty much zero chance of getting an honest court in this case. It's pretty clear the force in question is institutionally racist, as is pretty much every law enforcement agency in the US. Still, with Rodney King it was clear the justice system let guilty men go free because they were cops. In this case it isn't cut and dried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermik Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Does anyone know why they waited until the evening to announce the decision? From the footage they've just shown as breaking news here in the US, the shit is about to go down. Just my total uneducated guess but maybe they were expecting riots and lootings and did not want it to happen during the day in case innocent shoppers and shop workers got caught up in it. Reports now saying that the unrest is spreading over the country. There be a lot of unpaid Christmas shopping going on right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I have noooooo idea whats going on here, goodbye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 'Murica is politically disgusting and socially f**ked. This kind of thing is going to become alot more common. Let's follow them unconditionally in everything they say and do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Any excuse for this gif. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Twitter reports looting of a Dollar Store. That's surely doing looting wrong? Looters often seem to have a skewed view of what the high-value items are. Remember this guy from the London riots: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/ferguson-michael-brown-indictment-darren-wilson/ According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. attorneys prosecuted 162,000 federal cases in 2010, the most recent year for which we have data. Grand juries declined to return an indictment in 11 of them. But newspaper accounts suggest, grand juries frequently decline to indict law-enforcement officials. A recent Houston Chronicle investigation found that “police have been nearly immune from criminal charges in shootings” in Houston and other large cities in recent years. In Harris County, Texas, for example, grand juries haven’t indicted a Houston police officer since 2004; in Dallas, grand juries reviewed 81 shootings between 2008 and 2012 and returned just one indictment. 'Murica! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 You knew that it wasn't going to end well when they were basically saying "please don't riot" hours before the news came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 That country is a basket case. Instead of robbing shops they should shoot the polis and see how they like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 What a backwards mess the US really is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Looters often seem to have a skewed view of what the high-value items are. Remember this guy from the London riots: You can fill a shop with rice, add water, and then the goods and valuables come bursting out the windows to be simply picked up off the street. It's a little-known criminal tactic but highly effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Twitter reports looting of a Dollar Store. That's surely doing looting wrong? They're taking stuff into the shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broon-loon Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Nooka Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I do like these types of cases because it's reassuring to know that Unarmed = Completely innocent of everything and anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 I do like these types of cases because it's reassuring to know that Unarmed = Completely innocent of everything and anything Racist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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