Tuesday, November 25, 2014
What happened in Ferguson?
If you are like me, you don't really know the whole story as to what happened and is happening in Ferguson, Mo. So here is the story... On August 9, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown and his friend were walking in the street when Darren Wilson stopped them from his car and asked them to move to the sidewalk. While doing so, officer Wilson noticed that Michael Brown fit the description from a burglary at a local drug store from earlier that evening, and in turn calling a dispatcher about the two men. There was then an altercation between the two men and officer Wilson then shot Brown multiple times and in turn killing him. Last night the grand jury decided to not indicting Wilson of any crime. The major problems here were that the grand jury was made up of 9 white men and 3 black men in a black majority neighborhood. There has also been a history of problems between the police department, made of mostly white men, and this same black majority neighborhood. I feel that this case was properly handled. The way our system is made is to have the prosecuting attorney chooses the jury. This also caused controversy because the defense attorney was not present in choosing the jury. However, I believe that justice was served best to how the system is made.
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CJ - Grand Jury participants are chosen differently than trial juries - there is no defense attorney involved in any facet of the Grand Jury proceedings.
ReplyDeleteWhat race was the jury?
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