ATW, I never understood why you're so bitter. Invitation is not extended to you, you're sorta a creeper
Treeman, you have seriously missed a lot of the facts in this case---I suggest you read about why the community's drive to ask for a special prosecutor matters. I've presented a lot about McCulloch and why his decision-making was questioned even by the governor! Yet you have not addressed that one bit. It's a road-block in our argumentation, because I think you're clearly trying to ignore that---it's critical to establishing understanding about why tensions are so bad.
man if I thought my views here actually mattered or changed people's impressions, I'd be out of here in a jiffy. this is fun pissing, nothing more. let's keep it that way
They don't matter. To anyone. Congrats. More of your own time (and of those who actually still read your posts) wasted.
You are an old dude in Germany who has posted 30k+ at all times of the day about how you hate Muslims on a basketball forum in Houston Texas. Who the heck are you to criticize or insult anyone about wasting their time.
Who the hell are you? You have apparently been on here for 14 years and yet I cannot remember any post of yours that would have been worth reading. Not one. On top of that, your user name shows that you know nothing about basketball. So bugger off and shut up.
I have yet to read anyone say "I hate black people" in this thread. Your circle jerk fetish would not be satisfied with creating that new thread.......
Well, let's see, I could respond to NS Storm's accusation that I have a lot of the facts wrong, or I could post a link to ALL of the evidence that was presented in the grand jury proceedings and grant him a bit of the sunshine that he yearns for. Why don't you all spend a little time looking through some of this stuff - particularly the witness interviews and the autopsy report. The former are a hoot and are all over the map, with numerous witnesses giving testimony all over the map and often contradicting themselves (yet others giving testimony that supported Wilson's story), and the latter indicating that all wounds were to the front of the body with the exception of one head shot, which would have come as Brown was leaning towards Wilson either charging or falling over... Anyhoo, have a look through this and you should be able to understand why Wilson walked. There was never a case here. Enjoy. http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/ferguson/2014/11/25/ferguson-grand-jury-documents/70100296/
Can you post a link to how proceedings happened---given that this was a "rubber stamp" where the prosecutor has shown a vast ability to misrepresent what has happened, can you post that rather than an ad hoc document dump? ^This is actually the sunshine I'm looking for. Oh and this--- Can you post why Wilson was allowed to present his viewpoint (exculpatory evidence), even though traditionally, most defendants are not accorded that privilege? Can you post why governor Nixon's recommendation to appoint a special prosecutor was ignored? Why was a petition of 70,000 community members ignored on that same topic? Why do you believe a prosecutor who has previously misrepresented grand jury testimony, and has vividly made his views clear on this case---is the same as any other legal agent? I've represented a lot of evidence as to why he could be biased---where is the evidence that he could be impartial?
This was seen as an extraordinary case because of the media attention and the lynch mob out in the streets so rather than just dismissing the case for lack of cause, the prosecutor decided to have a special grand jury proceeding where all of the evidence was put out on the table in order to see if a sample of random members of the public would think there was cause to indict. Normally the prosecutor biases the evidence at the grand jury, this time everything was on the table and the people didn't think there was evidence of a crime. It was an extraordinarily fair process so there's really nothing to complain about.
Opinion. Now that you're asking everybody to form their own narrative on what might have happened behind closed doors, do you believe that having a prosecutor who has had his impartiality questioned drag legal proceedings through a rare and exceptional form with no legal precedent (ignoring other legal scholars, political authorities, and the community) is quote the "best course of action" and quote "in no way illegal, improper, or anything else of the sort"?
Incidentally, as we're talking about a "nation of laws"---do you think it is a good idea to carve new precedents every time there is an "exceptional case"? Does that not increase the chance of a "nation of men" making decisions, verging away from legal precedent to find "better outcomes" case-by-case?
