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Part 7 StLouis has racist tendencies-Ferguson Report

The long awaited DOJ Ferguson Report has been submitted and reveals many things that people living in StLouis with Half-a-Brain have realized for years: 

StLouis has racist tendencies and problems

Ferguson Riot Day 3 Image 

With a Republican majority in the MOleg
-will the needed changes come sooner rather than later for the health and well being of our city and as an example to the World?  I seriously doubt as was also stated by @MariaChappelleN who was just interviewed on

• PBS NewsHour ‏@NewsHour  13h

13 hours ago

What lessons were learned from #Ferguson? @RevStarsky & @MariaChappelleN discuss new report w/ @gwenifill http://bit.ly/newshourlive  #pbsnews

While reading the StLouis Post Dispatch comments yesterday I realized- there are too many HATERS and that people haven't learned anything yet.

I haven't read the Forward through Ferguson a Path Forward fully yet so I will withhold comment for now.

Here's what some of the local reporters are saying:

Ferguson Commission report explains complex problems in plain language

STLtoday.com‎ - 1 day ago

The Post-Dispatch was given a copy of thereport, titled “Forward through Ferguson, a Path ...

Ferguson Commission turns report over to Nixon

STLtoday.com‎ - 15 hours ago

Police kill North County man wanted in fatal shooting of Kentucky state trooper

STLtoday.com‎ - 11 hours ago

KSDK	Ferguson commission calls for sweeping changes to deal with racial inequity KSDK  - ‎Sep 14, 2015‎ The Ferguson commission was established by Nixon in November as anger and protests grew in the months after Michael Brown, 18, was fatally shot by white police officer Darren Wilson.

Lessons the Ferguson Commission can learn from the history of commissions KSDK  - ‎11 hours ago‎

Ferguson Commission Report Highlights Racial Inequality In St. Louis Region NPR  - ‎14 hours ago‎

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Part 6 Ferguson Decision-Cover Up and Rigged

Was the Ferguson Grand Jury Proceedings a Cover Up and Rigged- I bet yes.

#FergusonDecision-the Day the rest of the World learns how dysfunctional the StLouis Region actually is. 

(Links to the Actual Ferguson Grand Jury Documents at the bottom of the webpage)

"@TheCubicleChick: @stljv today's the day..."> The rest of the World learns how dysfunctional the stlouis region actually is.
— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) November 24, 2014

 

“#FergusonDecision: the day> The rest of the World learns how dysfunctional the StLouis region actually is.” http://t.co/JJBbzdQZHQ
— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) November 25, 2014

About a minute into McCulloughs report on the Case of Darren Wilson I posted this on Twitter:

I'm listening to McCullouch on GJ. Setting us up for #notguilty....rigged
— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) November 25, 2014

Grand Jury proceeding and how unfair the proceedings actually are.    

What you are not being told about the #Ferguson 'grand jury' -- its a rubber stamp for whatever the state wants https://t.co/64ySKwI1eL
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 25, 2014

This is only sustainable in relative ignorance of the US criminal justice system. It is a virtual certainty that the US grand jury will issue an indictment, if indeed it has not already done so. Civil advocacy groups, such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, or the American Civil Liberties Union, are unanimous on this point:

Since the prosecutor solely orchestrates the proceedings, it is no surprise that grand juries almost always serve as a rubber stamp for prosecution. A former chief judge of New York once famously noted that 'any prosecutor that wanted to could indict a ham sandwich.' In the rare event that a grand jury does not indict, the prosecutor can simply impanel a different grand jury and seek an indictment before a new grand jury.

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Based on US Department of Justice statistics, it is extremely rare for a grand jury not to indict. In the year 2009, federal grand juries in the United States saw cases involving 69,254 suspects and voted to indict all but 20 of them. (This is denoted by "no true bill returned" in the document.) That is a approximately one in every three thousand five hundred suspects.These statistics are repeated year after year. Given that it is known that he is the target of a grand jury investigation, Julian Assange has in and around a 99.97% chance of being indicted.

 During a Grand Jury Proceeding: it is only the Prosecutor and the Jury.  Tell me how fair a US Court System is when there is only 1 Person presenting the evidence.  What that means is that we the public must trust the system (that created this mess) to act Righteously and Lawfully?

emphasis added by Scotty THE FIX WAS IN ALL ALONG IN FERGUSON November 25, 2014 By Mike Caccioppoli https://americathenotsobeautiful.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/the-fix-was-in-all-along-in-ferguson/ We all sat together, watched, listened together. Listened as the corrupt St. Louis County Prosecutor named Bob McCulloch, told the nation, told all of us, from San Francisco to Chicago to New York to Miami and to the heart of the tragedy, Ferguson, Missouri, that Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed Michael Brown, will not face charges. Yes, most of us expected it, dreaded it. But now it was real, it had actually happened. Justice denied, again. Again. McCulloch stood there, and described an execution, then in the next breath said there was nothing to see here. He didn’t sound like any prosecutor I have heard before. He sounded much more like a defense attorney, the defense attorney for Darren Wilson. A prosecutor wants an indictment when they go to a grand jury so therefore in the almost non-existent cases where they don’t get one, they are distraught. Just as they are when they lose in case in court. McCulloch hardly seemed upset about the decision, in fact he seemed vindicated, just like a defense attorney would be after they got their client off. I’m not surprised at all. I expected this decision. We all did. But like everyone else, I was dreading this moment. I knew the fix was in. There was something disquieting about watching McCulloch throwing that fact in our collective faces. He threw it in our faces and hid behind a grand jury. I don’t blame them at all. As all legal experts have said, the grand jury does what the prosecutor wants. This time he didn’t want an indictment so he stacked the deck to get the result he wanted. McCulloch is a coward, and just like a defense attorney who does not put everything on the line for their client, McCulloch should be forced out of office and not be allowed to practice law ever again. He put nothing on the line for Michael Brown, in fact, Brown, the VICTIM wasn’t represented at all. (Mr Caccioppoli continues with the Article and continues to point out how dysfunctional the US Court System is ....link here)

McCulloch often says he's an advocate for victims of crime. I think the Brown Family, who still haven't gotten a phone call, would disagree.
— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) November 25, 2014

Remember, this guy is a *prosecutor*. Darren Wilson could never have hired a more passionate defender.
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) November 25, 2014

@MariaChappelleN @GovJayNixon Feckless "leadership" ... shameful pic.twitter.com/tfrOwRHMFO
— KC Williams (@ProfKCWilliams) November 24, 2014

MT "@amnesty: #Ferguson. @GovJayNixon, the world has its #EyesOnFerguson. http://t.co/ziKSeCUhhN" >& its Dysfunctional Statewide Government
— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) November 24, 2014

3 articles on why I think it's a coverup in #Ferguson. From day 1. http://t.co/l3cvjPlxv4 http://t.co/Bge4cJMMkh http://t.co/5HX2I7XCNe
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) November 24, 2014

I am trusting that the New York Times post of the #FergusonDecision Grand Jury Paperwork are the actual transcripts.

Im reading the #FergusonDecision papers, I'm supposed to believe the PD/FBI asking the Q's "Are not Protecting their Own". <its a struggle
— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) November 25, 2014

Documents Released in the Ferguson Case

Here are documents and evidence presented to the grand jury in Clayton, Mo., that was deciding whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting of Michael Brown. The documents were released by the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch. Note: Some of the documents contain graphic language. NOV. 25, 2014 

Ferguson Decision

Universities & Education Event 

See more of the Ferguson Stories and Videos from the Locals Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 


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