Nothing worth mentioning is happening in Ferguson Missouri.

[odeon]

Well at least the rioting isn't all bad they burnt down the Little Caesars saving the community from crappy pizza

I like your positive outlook on things.

[Al Swearegen]

Policeman? Lie. That is the answer. They can't start locking police up for killing people especially when police are the only ones allowed to kill it's own citizens and armed with lethal weapons to do so.
That would break the system
 Besides poor policeman. So what if he killed someone's son and brother and friend and then lied about it. He probably felt a bit bad afterwards and I am sure he wouldn't do it again.

[El]

Yaknow what, picard says it better:

[RageBeoulve]

It doesn't even matter if the fucking kid was black or not. The police officer did not get put in prison for murder, and he murdered a kid. An unarmed kid.

[Dexter Morgan]

Yaknow what, picard says it better:

Not enough evidence to be found guilty, and rather than have a continuing media circus with a trial, the prosecutor moved against indictment.

[odeon]

What about that other kid? No evidence there either?

[Yuri Bezmenov]

What other kid??

[Parts]

[Pyraxis]

What other kid??

Dorian Johnson, whose testimony can be read here.

[Dexter Morgan]

What other kid??

Dorian Johnson, whose testimony can be read here.

His testimony did not line up with forensic evidence.

[El]

The burden of proof to indict is typically very, very low.  If it had been anyone but a cop, he'd have been indicted.

[Pyraxis]

I don't understand why a jury was needed to indict. Isn't a jury something that decides guilt or innocence in a criminal trial? Is it because it was a cop who killed the man, so it wouldn't make sense for police to be making a decision whether to arrest him and bring charges or not?

[Yuri Bezmenov]

The burden of proof to indict is typically very, very low. 

Althought true, the other consideration is the likelyhood of conviction. In a trial that is likely to cost well into the millions of dollars, you don't want to waste the DA's budget on cases where chances of a conviction aren't that good.

[El]

The burden of proof to indict is typically very, very low. 

Althought true, the other consideration is the likelyhood of conviction. In a trial that is likely to cost well into the millions of dollars, you don't want to waste the DA's budget on cases where chances of a conviction aren't that good.

Especially not when the accused actually knows the law too well to be cowed into pleading out when there isn't adequate evidence for a conviction and he knows it, I suppose.

[ZEGH8578]

I am a bit surprised actually.
Weren't they going to get medals? Medals for bravery and gallantry? Given the "key to the city" perhaps?
Bronze statues in the town square?