<p>marie, you are the one who seems intractable about your position on this case without any concern for the details. Why DO you brush off the inconsistencies and questionable conduct of the police (including Wilson) after the scene? If the facts matter to you, as they do to many of us, don’t you want to know ALL of them?</p>
<p>Uhm, because in any case there will be little stuff to pick apart. That’s what defense attorneys do every day.</p>
<p>But there’s no defense attorney in a grand jury proceeding. Do you even understand the difference between a grand jury and a regular trial?</p>
<p>Yes, most cases don’t go to trial. Most cases involving cops using lethal force in the line of duty, less so.</p>
<p>“Yes, most cases don’t go to trial.”</p>
<p>No, most cases that go to a grand jury the defendant ends up indicted - except in cases where a cop is the defendant. </p>
<p>Marie, I have to put you on ignore because I am wasting too much of my time pointing out simple basic facts to you. </p>
<p>lol :-* </p>
<p>I’m going to preface this by saying that I’m someone who has participated in some of the protests that have gone on in the last few weeks, because I think there is ample evidence that police practices in this country have to change. </p>
<p>However, I continue to believe that prosecuting Darren Wilson would have been the wrong call, and finding out that a witness lied doesn’t change that. Witness testimony always needs to be taken with skepticism, as even the best intentioned of us tend to be notoriously poor witnesses. Once the forensics came out the way they did, there was no chance of conviction, and no real basis for a trial. Having a grand jury at all was cynical window dressing. </p>
<p>Is it possible Darren Wilson committed a crime here? Sure. That’s one reason it is a pity police aren’t required to wear body cameras, not that it helped in the Eric Garner case. But with forensics showing that there was a physical altercation that included the victim reaching into the officer’s car and getting DNA on his gun, what was the basis for charging him? </p>
<p>Two NYPD officers were executed today and the shooter claimed it was retribution for Garner and Brown. I am paying for their families in this holiday season. . Things have been ugly enough here with the rift between the police and the mayor. I am very concerned for civic peace now.</p>
<p>That is horrible, zoosermom. But as long as people feel the justice system does not work on their behalf, I would only expect these things to continue to happen.</p>
<p>That is horrible but. Ok.</p>
<p>Did you say that the death of Michael Brown was horrible but?</p>
<p>I’m sure this is going to help NYPD officers to be less trigger happy around black men. Oh wait. No it won’t. Heaven help us all.</p>
<p>The shooter killed his girlfriend in Baltimore and then drove to Brooklyn. </p>
<p>The girlfriend, thank God, is not dead. At least something good in this horror.</p>
<p>Sucks to realize this is the world we’re going to be living in for the foreseeable future. </p>
<p>I’d like to lay a little of the blame off on Dorian Johnson and his ‘hands up, don’t shoot me’ story, but heck… he’s just a kid and making up a better story than the truth doesn’t usually land these sort of consequences. How would he have known? Nope, it’s the adults that have kept running with both it and the race angle. In spite of a distinct lack of evidence for the inflammatory bits, they’ve kept running with it.</p>
<p>Maybe Sharpton, after he gets done shaking down Sony, will fly in and start the healing. Let’s hope.</p>
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<p>Any death is horrible. Don’t be ridiculous.</p>
<p>Sally, your post 1328 was very callous. </p>
<p>No, it wasn’t. I have the utmost sympathy for the victims and their families, who did nothing to deserve this. The shooting today was an unspeakable tragedy.</p>
<p>You know, you can choose to always look for the “other” or the “opposition” in people’s comments, or you can try to understand where they are coming from or what they are trying to say. Your choice.</p>
<p>One doesn’t have to look for the “other or the opposition”. You said, “But as long as people feel the justice system does not work on their behalf, I would only expect these things to continue to happen”.</p>
<p>You expect people to keep murdering innocent police officers because they feel the justice system does not work on their behalf? That is freaking crazy. I expect people would protest, complain, vote accordingly, speak up. I do not expect people to execute others because they are angry at the system. </p>
<p>Oh yeah, that’s going to help police officers trust that they’re not going to be attacked, and stop them from being so aggressive with their guns. That’s going to solve the problem.</p>
<p>“Maybe Sharpton, after he gets done shaking down Sony, will fly in and start the healing. Let’s hope”</p>
<p>If there’s money to be had, he’s there. No doubt he’ll be preaching about the innocent shooter, and how the police just drove him to murder.</p>
<p>busdriver, just let it go. You are twisting my words and making insinuations that are not accurate.</p>
<p>My point was simply that sometimes people “snap.” Sometimes those who feel the usual ways of venting their anger or frustration (i.e., choosing to “protest, complain, vote accordingly, speak up”) don’t work turn to violent means to make their point. Timothy McVeigh, Eric Frein, Ted Kaczynski…there are many of them. They are sick and twisted, as was the guy that shot the officers today.</p>
<p>BTW, if you care (as I do) about police officers trusting that they are not going to be attacked, you should support thorough and impartial investigations of the shootings that do occur.</p>
<p>This double murder of two innocent officers sounds less like a political act and more like the work of a mentally unbalanced person who, like so much such murderers, use political or religious rationale for their actions. I don’t know any of the specifics, but the fact that he shot his girlfriend, then killed two police before committing suicide, doesn’t sound like the actions of a sane individual. </p>