Blah blah blah #NoIndictment #Ferguson Grand Jury Decision: Live Blog
Posted: November 24, 2014 Filed under: just because | Tags: Darren Wilson, Ferguson Grand Jury 85 Comments
Good Evening.
The above picture is from St. Louis….see Mediaite link below.
There is activity inside the “Justice Room” in Clayton, MO where the announcement will be made shortly…so I thought I would put up a live blog. Chris Hayes just reported that the Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, will give a twenty minute statement…and then take questions.
On Maddow they are reporting that documents will be released online within an hour after the statement. WTF?
Flashpoint Ferguson | Al Jazeera America
Gov. Nixon calls for calm ahead of Ferguson grand jury announcement | Al Jazeera America
Watch Life: Coming Up: Decision From Ferguson Grand Jury on Officer Darren Wilson – NBC News.com
A prosecutor is set to unveil a grand jury’s decision on whether to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown on a street in Ferguson, Missouri, in August.
The announcement is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET.
The grand jury, which considered evidence for three months, had the option of returning a charge as severe as first-degree murder against Wilson, 28. They also had the option of a lesser charge, or no charge at all.
Ferguson and neighboring communities were on edge ahead of the announcement. Businesses boarded up windows, and schools closed early for the following day. Police beefed up patrols, and Gov. Jay Nixon readied the National Guard.
— Erin McClam
St. Louis Gates Vandalized with Quote from The Hunger Games | Mediaite
From HuffPo:
DECISION: NOW
INDICTMENT OR NO?… Missouri Gov. Appeals For Calm… St. Louis County Prosecutor Will Release Records If No Indictment… NYT: Wilson Not Yet Told To Turn Himself In… What You Need To Know About The Grand Jury… TIMELINE: The Death Of Michael Brown… LIVE UPDATES…
Consider this an open thread….
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Carry over, only a few hand picked local news people will be able to ask questions.
Fannie, the stuff that legal dude was saying…damn, that was something else. I wish I had been able to type it out fast. I would be afraid to paraphrase it, I could get it wrong.
Wow, are y’all hearing this stuff about the legal shit on Maddow?
What are they saying? I can only get CNN here.
It was very detailed about the way this prosecutor handed over the evidence to the jury.
Now he is saying that there was a report about the stolen cigars over the police radio…Can you hear the prosecutor though?
I heard him. It made me sick. The worst thing he said was that Michael Brown’s family will have this with them “for a long time.”
Really. Losing a child is devastating and the pain never goes away. Never.
Coming in the room.
Here it comes…
Geez, lay it on thick…before you give the final decision…dammit!
Apparently there is only one fixed camera in the room.
https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/537067925501665280
https://twitter.com/Atrios/status/537067877233602560
https://twitter.com/allisonkilkenny/status/537067717585797122
NBC calls it, no indictment.
Defense attorney for the police officer: No charges were found against Darren Wilson, he was justified in his actions against Michael Brown.
People running on the screen the crowd over at the Ferguson police dept…don’t know what is going on, but it looks like they are just leaving the area…no longer listening.
Why is he droning on? There’s no justification for what happened. I guess he’s prosecuting Michael Brown?
He is prosecuting the witnesses and the media and the press too.
No Indictment – blood and tears, fears……we hurt, we cry.
It is surreal to see this asshole droning on…on one side of the screen, with the crowds moving about and no sounds on that side of the screen.
https://twitter.com/scATX/status/537071525674115073
https://twitter.com/grasswire/status/537071155878715392
With conflicting information/statements, yet they made a decision based on conflicting statements.. But Officer Wilson fired on him when he was running. It’s not enough to indict Officer Wilson.
yes, everything the DA said had so much truthiness
https://twitter.com/KenSherrill/status/537071401266872320
https://twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/537072230937944064
All that evidence they had there, you mean to tell me there was a sliver of doubt to send it to a jury? What the fuck office is he running for?
fuck….not a sliver of doubt.
He just said he had all the information, and then a minute later says he wasn’t privy to all the information. WTF?
“He is saying most people can’t understand……..wtf?
Pres. will speak in just a minute.
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/537076622340661248
Obama talking soon
Tell me, tell, Mister. What crime was Michael Brown charged with when Officer Wilson pursued him. This stinks, it’s stinks at a management level and I have known some great cops, but this cop stinks.
I hate to say this, but after Ferguson and after seeing those cheerleaders in blackface that JJ posted, I’m going to have to assume that any white person I meet from Missouri is a virulent racist until they show me otherwise.
This is true. I grew up there. Granted, we moved back to Texas in 1985 but apparently nothing has changed.
Well. Let’s see what Obama says.
They should have let this go to jury…………with the grand jury we will never know the votes. There was no reason they couldn’t let this go to jury, none.
Obama sounds pissed.
Michael Brown’s parents have lost more than anyone…protest peacefully. Deep distrust exist with law enforcement and communities of color…
I don’t trust law enforcement either. I just have had the pleasure of bumping into them because I live the hood and law enforcement runs wild down here. They targeted my lily white youngest one in the suburbs of Omaha just to get their statistics right with the justice department because they were over arresting minority youth. I have seen them–over and over again–tell total fabrications and stick up for each other. The only reason I think most white people still trust them is that they don’t have to deal with them for the most part.
Oh I agree, I see the shit the law enforcement can get away with around here…frightening shit.
I don’t trust cops period.
Obama sounding less pissed as he talks…mentions sometimes law feels like it is being discriminatory but there are ways to protest constructively. No excuse for violence. Also, there is a problem, just can focus on violence and ignore the issue, things must be worked on…to make progress.
He may visit Ferguson, but wait and see what happens. Looks like there is a shit load of gas on the scene over in Ferguson however…the split screen.
Obama’s taking questions too …
thank you Dak…glad you and Frannie are here. 😉
Thank you JJ, Justice in this country is unfair.
This is SO FU+KED UP! Not apologizing for yelling — this shit is disgusting. There was no damn justification for this murder by Wilson.
O my country
rage and fear
bully police fire on
children, family, community
we without uniforms, without helmets, marked with bullseyes between our scapulae
miasma in our hearts
eyes shocked, knowing don’t mourn, organize but
human
we
mourn
Thanks for those words, Luna. Heartbreaking.
TY. Not very good, but poured out in 1-2 min.
Thank you. Your poem hits home. How do we change this, this whole stinking mess of a country?
I finally found MSNBC on the TV here. The coverage is much better than on CNN.
The coverage on the legal aspect of this particular Grand Jury was something…
I’ll have to try to find it and watch it in the morning.
Photo of Wilson’s “damaged” face. Riiiiiight.
It’s probably from the recoil when he shot the gun off inside his car.
That’s it? People get worse injuries while shaving.
Exactly. It’s all bullshit.
Remember when some people claimed Wilson had a fractured eye socket??!
This scene now, with all these fires, and no fire departments putting them out…the feeling is like that part in the movie Mississippi Burning…where the cops sat and did nothing, telling Gene Hackman and Willem Dafeo to go away, that it was a “…local problem” is all they said.
Finally the fire department…
I think you’re right, JJ.
https://twitter.com/tchopstl/status/537096214819635203
https://twitter.com/tchopstl/status/537097736097923074
It wasn’t until the public storage, the third building…btw, caught on fire that they dispatched the fire dept. (Which is literally next door to where these burning cars, buildings are.)
Chris Hayes says that building was burning for 50 min before fire truck arrived.
fucking a…
1:11,000? WTHF?
It all depends on how the prosecutor presents the case. This prosecutor obviously presented the case for Wilson’s defense.
Thanks so much for this thread, JJ. I’m glad I’m not all alone with this.
It has been hard to watch the situation deteriorate.
All of that.
Yes, and public officials and media whipped up the frenzy deliberately.
https://twitter.com/rdevro/status/537099230243217409
He’s twerp who needed a uniform and gun to feel like a man.
Exactly what I was thinking.
After the rubor had gone down from rubbing his cheek really hard for the other photo. Does that man look at all like he’s been in a fight? How stupid do they think we are? Damn, how powerless are we is the question.
Wilson’s injuries are a joke–a worse joke than George Zimmerman’s. Yet he testified that Brown punched him twice and he was losing consciousness. He claimed he feared another punch could have been fatal. That is a transparent lie.
As if we would we believe anything they said.
Hey, why are they acting like they didn’t know it would boil over to other cities? If I fucking knew it, they sure in the fuck knew it. I am looking around at the photos, I see tense black faces, real hard faces, and they are in Oakland, NY, Philadelphia, Chicago, DC. Because the police are killing everywhere. They are the making this fucking shit happen. We are seeing it everywhere. Americans need to look into those faces, because it’s happening, with tremendous psychological effects to our society, this here 21st century.
This is serious, people are going to continue to get hurt, and get shot in the streets in their own neighborhoods. I myself am living in the mountains of lilly white America, Idaho, I hear the words “burn baby burn.”
I had to turn off CNN this morning. They had two white attorneys discussing the case and they seemed to take Wilson’s testimony at face value. It seems obvious to me that he lied. What possible reason could an 18 year old black kid have for punching a cop in the face inside his car? The only reason I can think of is self-defense. After all, Brown’s friend said Wilson grabbed Brown by the neck and pulled him toward the car window.
The story that Brown “charged” Wilson after being shot several times is ludicrous. Give me a break. Why would he do that after running away? Wilson shot Brown through the top of the head. He must have turned around to surrender and then been hit while he was falling down, fatally injured.
There should have been a trial. Of course Wilson still would have gotten away with murder. This is a nightmare.
Darren Wilson’s testimony: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/11/24/darren_wilson_testimony_ferguson_police_officer_testimony_in_michael_brown.html
Hundreds in Boston protest Ferguson decision.