He hasn't been indicted because of this:
That's why police generally aren't indicted for shooting suspects and people resisting arrest. They can kill people in a variety of circumstances that would be murder if they were not acting as police.
The grand jury was indeed because of the political uproar concerning Wilson's shooting Brown. It was the prosecutor's CYA attempt. And in fairness, with the evidence released to the public, it's a lot more transparent than a closed police investigation which is what we usually get.
Quote:Chapter 563 of the Missouri Revised Statutes grants a lot of discretion to officers of the law to wield deadly force, to the horror of many observers swooping in to the Ferguson story. The statute authorizes deadly force “in effecting an arrest or in preventing an escape from custody” if the officer “reasonably believes” it is necessary in order to “to effect the arrest and also reasonably believes that the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a felony…or may otherwise endanger life or inflict serious physical injury unless arrested without delay.”http://www.thenation.com/article/190937/...indict-cop
That's why police generally aren't indicted for shooting suspects and people resisting arrest. They can kill people in a variety of circumstances that would be murder if they were not acting as police.
The grand jury was indeed because of the political uproar concerning Wilson's shooting Brown. It was the prosecutor's CYA attempt. And in fairness, with the evidence released to the public, it's a lot more transparent than a closed police investigation which is what we usually get.
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