No Indictment for Ferguson Officer

November 25th, 2014

Via: USA Today:

A white police officer will not face charges for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager in a case that set off violent protests and racial unrest throughout the nation.

A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict officer Darren Wilson, 28, for firing six shots in an August confrontation that killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch said Monday night.

Crowds of protesters filled streets near the Ferguson police station following the announcement. A police car and stores were set on fire, other stores were looted, gunfire was heard and bricks were hurled. Police said they had been fired on and responded with smoke bombs and pepper spray before using tear gas.

Police later said they came under heavy automatic weapon fire, and some buildings were left to burn because of the danger. County police said an officer suffered a gunshot wound, but it was unclear if it was because of the protest violence.

Protests sprang up in cities from New York to Los Angeles and remained mostly peaceful. At least half a dozen commercial airline flights into St. Louis were diverted out of concerns about the unrest.

One Response to “No Indictment for Ferguson Officer”

  1. Eileen says:

    I read in another report that Wilson fired 12-13 shots and that 6 of them entered Brown’s body. I don’t know what to make of what is happening here. I only know that in the 1960’s when the National Guard shot and killed unarmed students, the Vietnam protests definitely took on a violent steam.
    Bear with me here- but on Saturday my yoga instructor played Jimmy Cliff. In a song he sang about his ancestors being stolen from Africa and I just groaned inside because I had forgotten all about slavery until I heard that song again.
    When people who are carrying guns with or without a badge can just shoot black people with impunity – which is what is going on in the U.S. today- no speech from Obama is going to quell the emotions in people who have learned all their lives about white people who always get away with their crimes against the segment of humanity that happen to be black people.

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