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Oakland Shuts It Down for Mike Brown After No Indictment for Darren Wilson, 11/24/14: photos
As expected, the grand jury tasked with determining if there was enough evidence for charging Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson with any crime for the murder of Mike Brown determined that there wasn’t probable cause. While the announcement that there would be no indictment of Darren Wilson was no surprise in a country where police frequently kill people of color and the poor with impunity, outrage over the verdict was not tempered. People in Ferguson and across the country rose up for Mike Brown and shut down freeways and city streets. In Ferguson, two police cars were burned as well as a number of local businesses. In Oakland, the I-580 freeway was shut down for over two hours and then protests continued downtown late into the night.
[Photo: Looking west on 580, where hundreds of protesters ran up the Lake Park off-ramp to block the freeway.]
With the post-announcement release of information from inside the grand jury proceedings, it has been reported that Darren Wilson was the first witness from which the grand jury heard, St. Louis County District Attorney Bob McCulloch stacking the deck in favor of Darren Wilson escaping accountability from Day One. Further, it has been reported that Wilson told the grand jury that Mike Brown looked like “a demon” to him as he shot down Mike Brown in broad daylight in Ferguson on August 9, literally demonizing unarmed 18-year-old Mike Brown.
(Apologies for the low-quality nighttime mobile phone photos. But, better than nothing.)
With the post-announcement release of information from inside the grand jury proceedings, it has been reported that Darren Wilson was the first witness from which the grand jury heard, St. Louis County District Attorney Bob McCulloch stacking the deck in favor of Darren Wilson escaping accountability from Day One. Further, it has been reported that Wilson told the grand jury that Mike Brown looked like “a demon” to him as he shot down Mike Brown in broad daylight in Ferguson on August 9, literally demonizing unarmed 18-year-old Mike Brown.
(Apologies for the low-quality nighttime mobile phone photos. But, better than nothing.)
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https://www.indybay.org/police/
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