No Judge, no jury, no trial. Just a closed meeting with private citizens and a prosecutor to decide if another unarmed black man was legally murdered.
A grand jury on Monday declined to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, resolving a secretive, months-long legal saga and reigniting powerful frustrations about America’s policing of African Americans.
The decision means that Wilson, 28, will face no state charges for the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. It also set off a show of fury on streets near where Brown was shot, a reflection of emotions that register in this riven city as either out of control or justifiable.
Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.
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