Obama and Ferguson

[Heywood]

-and I've explained my opinion of what's been released. The cop got the kid gloves. It was, effectively, a trial for witnesses and evidence that -would- at least give cause to take the matter to court. It's very, very clear that the state wanted to avoid this. I don't know how many times I'm going to have to say this, I don't think he would have been found guilty of anything..but the mans innocence or guilt is not what a grand jury is convened to decide - and the state certainly didn't act in a very consistent manner on this. Understand?

You don't understand the point of a grand jury. The purpose of a grand jury is to determine if it probably true that a crime was committed. The only reason this went to a grand jury is to appease a mob. If the prosecutor does not want to prosecute....because there is no case....and he is taking this before a grand jury to appease a mob.....he isn't going withhold evidence in favor of the defense like he might with a different grand jury on a case he wants to prosecute.

How as a prosecutor do you justify bringing this to trial when you have witnesses who substantiate the cops story that Brown was charging at him?

If Brown had been a bear instead of a human nobody would question the cops decision to shoot instead of holstering his gun and pulling out his can of mace.