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| McColloch - Wilson - Brown - Ferguson Missouri |
They took
their time and even quoted obsolete struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court
statutes that give cops a license to kill especially if perps are unarmed and fleeing.
McColloch’s predicted months long probe ending up even being many hours late when
the Grand Jury had supposedly already finished on Monday.
Missouri’s
obsolete statute presented to the Grand Jury sounded more like something out of
Jim Crow or the pre-Civil War Fugitive Slave laws protecting the property of
plantation owners of Missouri – as pointed out by Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC
last night.
Blacks at best in Missouri can only get 3/5 entitlement to any law, past or present, on the books there. Less if McColloch & Co. are orchestrating an intentionally mismanaged, botched hack job on protecting Male White Entitlement in this old borderline slave state.
Blacks at best in Missouri can only get 3/5 entitlement to any law, past or present, on the books there. Less if McColloch & Co. are orchestrating an intentionally mismanaged, botched hack job on protecting Male White Entitlement in this old borderline slave state.
The steamy evening, with a
temperature of 84 and 72 percent humidity at 8 p.m., took its toll on the early
energy level. Adding to the discomfort was a heavy thunderstorm passing
through.
A pair of protesters supporting
Officer Darren Wilson walked along West Florissant shortly before the rain
struck. Many in the crowd shouted at them, and police quickly removed them by
squad car.
Another protester, Mubarack
Sulamann, traveled from Memphis to Ferguson to peddle T-shirts that read
“Justice for Mike Brown.” The cost? $10.
The first of two marches in
Clayton was held in the morning as the grand jury commenced its work. But
County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch warned that it won’t finish its task any time
soon, despite numerous calls by protesters and some public officials for speedy
action.
“Our target date is, hopefully,
by the middle of October,” McCulloch said. “I certainly understand the concern,
but we won’t rush it through. In the long run people, at least a majority of
people, will appreciate the thoroughness.”
Grand juries work in secret. The
grand jury meets in his office behind secure doors in the County Justice
Center, across South Central Avenue Carondelet Avenue from the St. Louis County
Courthouse. Reporters have no ability to see anyone entering or leaving the
grand jury room, or how they get to McCulloch’s office from outside the
building.
Handling the case before the
grand jury are assistant prosecutors Sheila Whirley, who is black, and Kathi
Alizadeh, who is white. Alizadeh, with 27 years experience, is the regular
homicide prosecutor. Whirley has the grand jury assignment and 18 years
experience.
McCulloch declined to discuss any
evidence, but elaborated upon his decision not to rush the investigation.
“Some people say we are rushing
to judgment and others say we are dragging it out,” he said. “We will do this
as expeditiously as possible, but certainly not in any haphazard manner.”
As for October, he said, “It
could be longer than that, or shorter than that. I doubt any sooner than that.”
Outside the Justice Center, about
50 protesters marched and chanted in the 7800 block of Carondelet Avenue. One
held a sign saying, “Recuse McCulloch.”
The only tense moment was when
Pattie Canter of Clayton walked to the protest area carrying a sign saying, “My
family and friends support Officer Wilson and the police.”
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