Obama and Ferguson

[The Grand Nudger]

So you're saying that you are aware of all the evidence that has been presented. How so?

-because this didn't go to a trial, it's unlikely that either you or I - or Esq (or the greater public) will be aware of that evidence. What has been released -does- look to be just a tad biased, just a tad stacked in the officers favor (as was expected by many, regardless of whether or not the shooting was justified).

What I'm saying is that it wasn't some skinny teen, and if he had tried to wrestle my gun from me and was charging back at me again, I think I might shoot him. And that's also what the grand jury decided after hearing testimony from black and white witnesses and examining all the forensic evidence. What more do you want?

I believe Esq was hoping for the same thing that many were hoping for - transparency. Oh well, hope in one hand, shit in the other. Being something other than a skinny teen, is, again, not grounds for summary execution in the street.

They have no right to bring a person to trial without sufficient supporting evidence.

A dead body -is- sufficient supporting evidence. Do you think that you would have escaped trial on the same count? I doubt it...just imagine that it was a cops dead body -bzzzzzzzzzzzt- RIP. The man could very well be as justified as the grand jury decided that he was (and ultimately that's all that matters)...but many have no condfidence in a system that will deliver a predictable outcome either way..and particularly so when that system feels that the best way to accomplish this is behind closed doors. The very best thing that can be said about it all - the most positive spin I can put on it....is that it was yet another missed opportunity in an endless litany of missed opportunities.