Ferguson GJ to Announce Decision Just After 5pm Local Time Today

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  1. nra37922

    nra37922 Well-Known Member

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    Since my last thread on this subject was closed lets try again.

    From the article

    "ST. LOUIS — In a city bracing for another convulsion, the waiting game looks like this: University students gather in a gym and rally for peace. Churches draw up plans for “safe spaces,” a refuge during potential chaos. Fringe groups pass out fliers advocating for various kinds of instigation if a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer who 3 1/2 months ago shot an unarmed teenager.

    It’s that decision, which authorities have for days signaled was imminent but now seems slow to come, that has brought St. Louis into a bizarre holding pattern, with little agreement here about what will happen in the city after the grand jury resolution. "

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...615786-7263-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

    I would be interested on what everyone's thoughts are on what is holding up the Grand Jury decision. IMHO I think that the decision has been made but that powers that be are waiting until all the various LEO and support elements are in place before the announcement is released. Would it be a cynical ploy to wait until the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to drop the verdict?
     
  2. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    If the grand jury did find cause for holding responsible for killing Brown it would be equivalent to walking on the sun. Cop lovers almost always let cops get away with shooting people. Especially white cops who shoot black guys and this case is in Missouri.

    I think the last time a white cop got busted for killing a black guy was in 2009, in California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BART_Police_shooting_of_Oscar_Grant

    But a black cop did get convicted just the other day for shooting a guy in handcuffs in the back and paralyzing him. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/13/md-cop-who-shot-fleeing-suspect-back-sentenced-5-y/ It's unclear if the victim is black or white.
     
  3. Jahnny B

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    From what we of the evidence and what it shows, i dont know how they could indict him. From what we know it sounds justified. Im sure the powers that b are trying to find a situation that can appease the masses without automatically making the officer a sacrificial lamb if he doesnt deserve it.


    Whatever the outfome, i hope that nobody gets hurt and nobody dies due to rioting or their "peaceful" civil disobedience
     
  4. Marine1

    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I think a lot has to do with police rules of engagement. We believe the officer stopped Brown, either for walking in the street, or because officer may have believed Brown was a suspect in a robbery. It looks like an argument broke out, Brown punched the officer and that Brown may have reached for the officers gun and the gun went off. Now he ran, officer shot at him. Brown turned around and walked back towards the officer. Is the officer legally permitted to shot him according to police procedures? I think he could.
     
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    More leftist racist bull(*)(*)(*)(*).

    Police kill about 400-600 people of ALL COLORS, in a year.

    When's the "last time somebody did something" about the 7000-8000 blacks murdered by other blacks here?

    Phonyass hypoocrite.
     
  6. The Wyrd of Gawd

    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    There's a theory that anger makes people susceptible to various diseases and illnesses. You may want to chill before you become sick and die from an anger-induced ailment.

    You're right about those killer cops and I can understand why you're so angry since they routinely get away with murder and acts of mayhem. Cops routinely kill and abuse people every day, as this link shows http://policestatedaily.com/category/police-state-enforcement/. So I can understand your anger but chill and live, don't let anger make you sick.
     
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    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Maybe you need to try and understand the cop's anger. They are human too. Ever call they make can be a deadly one for them. They deal with the trash of the world every working day. They are called ever name in the book and many of the people they arrest fight them. One mistake can cost them their lives. So maybe you can understand why they can be so touchy.
     
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    They heard evidence for months and have a lot to think about. They just started deliberating Friday, and won't meet again until Monday. They probably have thousands of pages of testimony to go over and are trying to convince those who don't want an indictment.
     
  9. Professor Peabody

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    As soon as someone attempts to take a Cops gun it's a deadly force incident. If shots were fired inside the car during the attempted gun grab and Brown ran then turned back on the Officer instead of getting on the ground...........then he's up for a Darwin Award thanking him for removing himself from the gene pool.
     
  10. The Wyrd of Gawd

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    You don't see them quitting do you? They like the power of being armed and being allowed to shoot people without too much blow-back.
     
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    But, of course; pointing out your bull(*)(*)(*)(*) means I must be "angry".


    Spare me your juvenile Alinski nonsense.

    There an illness that makes people constantly lie and avoid the Truth, even when the facts are OVERWHELMING.

    Young black men kill tens times more black men than all police shootings put together in the US.

    Don't let your willful ignorance make you sick.
     
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    It isn't sexy enough for liberals to address the actual problem of black on black violent crime, instead they like to focus on the much less frequent police shootings, but only those where the policeman's skin is a light shade. It fits their ignorant agenda that skin color is everything, and everyone should be viewed in a bigoted manner strictly by the color of their skin.
     
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    It is time to prepare the National Guard to crack some skulls and throw some rioters in jail.
     
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    You're probably right... they're waiting for Thanksgiving week and, hopefully, colder, wetter weather that is supposed to be in the Midwest by about Monday afternoon. The schools will be closed for the holiday week (hell, the schools close all the time for this and that, and rarely for less than a week anyway).

    The longer they wait, the more tired and broke the out-of-town goons become. It's hard to keep at combat-readiness when the days and nights pass in uneventful drunkenness, pot smoking, and jive-talking. Plus, it costs money to just hang around for long periods of time, waiting to go destroy a town. These thugs don't have jobs, and not even welfare money can keep their violent little "boats" floating for very long.

    When the Grand Jury announces that, hell, no, Officer Wilson didn't do one damn thing wrong at all, the thugs will run around for a while, and tear some things up. But it probably won't amount to much, really. If I were running their police force and National Guard, I'd start with rubber bullets and rock salt. After the thugs fire the first real bullet, though, I'd respond in kind. Form skirmish lines with 12-gauge shotguns up front, backed up by sniper-marksmen along perimeters. Start with immobilizing gas canisters fired in thug concentrations, and proceed. The whole thing could be over in less than an hour....
     
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    Blow back is a good way to put it, blowing smoke over a store robbing old lady assaulting cop attacker being shot.
     
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    Starting this thread for first comments......once it's announce at 5pm.

    "A St. Louis County grand jury has reportedly reached a decision about whether or not to indict Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who in August shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. The decision is expected to be announced around 5 p.m. Eastern Time."

    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2...aiting-hear/GTOEjtkRoI1DMagnIEp0HK/story.html

    Whatever it is, I hope and pray no one gets hurt or killed.
     
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    Either way, hopefully there will be a peaceful night. I do wonder though if it wasnt for the news keeping this at the forefront if things woudl not have died down by now.
     
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    If OJ can get off free so can the police officer.
     
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    They said press conference tonight at 8.

    And here I thought it was going to be a slow TV night ;)
     
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    It'll be interesting to see what happens in the "other cities" that were on that target list.
     
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    What are you talking about?
     
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    BTW, even though I personally believe that Officer Wilson didn't do anything wrong and should not be indicted......I also didn't hear ALL the evidence. And it could be the GJ would decide they'll go for the lowest charge available to them, indict him, and then let a jury be the deciders. It would not surprise me.....even though we've been led to believe there will be no indictment.

    I do know that Officer Wilson testified before them and told them what happened. I would think that if the evidence matches what he said, there should be no indictment.
     
  24. YouLie

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    lol…he preemptively called dibbs on the thread topic. Awesome. I hope it stays here, man.

    Time to turn on the news and wait. Who to go with for the play by play, FNC or CNN?
     
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    I read where Obama is not ruling out a trip to Ferguson depending on the response.
     

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