No indictment means he will not be charged. You will either be No Billed or True Billed. In this case he was No Billed.
Agreed but that still doesn't change the fact that Black America still doesn't believe that the system works.
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Well of course they will. Facts are facts. No bill. No. Mr Brown got the consequence that he earned all by himself.
SAMSHA is one of the ways they count it. There are a great many others. Whites are more likely to abuse drugs (http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-than-blacks/), blacks and whites use drugs at roughly the same rates (http://www.vox.com/2014/7/1/5850830/war-on-drugs-racist-minorities), but blacks go to jail in astronomically higher numbers than whites. Some relevant studies and statistics... (Racial Disparities in Enforcement and Incarceration) "The racial disparities in the rates of drug arrests culminate in dramatic racial disproportions among incarcerated drug offenders. At least two-thirds of drug arrests result in a criminal conviction.18 Many convicted drug offenders are sentenced to incarceration: an estimated 67 percent of convicted felony drug defendants are sentenced to jail or prison.19 The likelihood of incarceration increases if the defendant has a prior conviction.20 Since blacks are more likely to be arrested than whites on drug charges, they are more likely to acquire the convictions that ultimately lead to higher rates of incarceration. Although the data in this backgrounder indicate that blacks represent about one-third of drug arrests, they constitute 46 percent of persons convicted of drug felonies in state courts.21 Among black defendants convicted of drug offenses, 71 percent received sentences to incarceration in contrast to 63 percent of convicted white drug offenders.22 Human Rights Watch’s analysis of prison admission data for 2003 revealed that relative to population, blacks are 10.1 times more likely than whites to be sent to prison for drug offenses.23" Source: Fellner, Jamie, "Decades of Disparity: Drug Arrests and Race in the United States," Human Rights Watch (New York, NY: March 2009), p. 16. http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/us0309web_1.pdf - See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Race_and_Prison#sthash.JYmX1pHZ.dpuf (Incarceration Rates Compared) "When incarceration rates by State (excluding Federal inmates) are estimated separately by gender, race, and Hispanic origin, male rates are found to be 10 times higher than female rates; black rates 5-1/2 times higher than white rates; and Hispanic rates nearly 2 times higher than white rates." Source: Harrison, Paige M., & Beck, Allen J., PhD, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005" (Washington, DC: US Dept. of Justice, May 2006) (NCJ213133), p. 10. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pjim05.pdf - See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Race_and_Prison#sthash.JYmX1pHZ.dpuf
Its a very gray situation that people want to paint black or white (no pun intended). There's no real way to say right or wrong here. Seems the evidence supports the officer in approaching the suspect, the suspect escalated the situation more than he needed to, and the officer may have responded with a second round of lethal shots prematurely. It also sounds like he did as he was trained. Its easy for me, an untrained, citizen, arm chair police officer/ judge to say that he responded with unnecessary force, when I've never been in that situation, or trained for that situation. I think I side with the cop,easily,on this one, and that opinion has just recently change. Unfortunately, many people in that area, especially the undereducated and the sensationalists will only respond out of emotion alone. Although nobody lost their life, the bigger outcry should be going on in Saratoga Springs, New York. That guy should be sent to prison for quite some time.
did ya think this was going to end any other way? You are a license to kill a black man if you are white.
No, I knew it wasn't going to end any other way. Once the facts came out, anyone with any brain activity could see that deadly force was justified.
Well it shouldn't be too bad. There's probably a lot of people who need to be up early for work in the.....oh wait
Black witnesses testified that Michael Brown charged Officer Wilson. The physical evidence supports that Brown charged Wilson. Facts.
Wow, this is bringing out more nastiness than I thought. Let's hope the citizens there don't echo those in this thread.
