Rudy Giuliani was never really about the healing when it came to talking about race in America. But in the days surrounding the Ferguson grand jury news he seemed to renounce whatever restraint he’d ever had on the issue and return to it with a gusto after more than a decade spent focusing on hating on Arabs. So we asked Dylan Scott to find out just what happened. Great piece. Check it out.
Most infographics don’t add that much. But this one is very helpful in understanding some broad outlines about the Wilson grand jury. PBS Newshour has gone through the transcripts and created a straightforward chart showing what each witness said on several key questions. Were Brown’s hands up? Was he charging Wilson? Was he running away when fired upon?
We should always be careful not to force concrete individual events – individual tragedies – into the greater, broader social injustices into which they seem to and may indeed fit. It’s with this skepticism that I’ve approached the death of Michael Brown from the start. So I was surprised that finally reading Darren Wilson’s testimony changed my impression of what happened a lot.
Out of the spotlight for a couple years, Giuliani decides memories of toxicity had maybe faded too much. So he’s back on the case.
Two FBI Agents were shot overnight near Ferguson, Missouri where they were helping local law enforcement execute an arrest warrant at a barricaded home. Neither agent’s injuries were life-threatening.
Flock of pigs flies over Mississippi as federal judge strikes down the state’s gay marriage ban (Arkansas’s too.)
DC Republicans have arrived at their policy for blocking President Obama’s immigration order – EBI – everything but impeachment.
Fraught and loaded with meaning, Darren Wilson told the St. Louis County grand jury that during his scuffle with Michael Brown, the 18 year old Brown looked “angry”, like a “demon.”
The President will address the grand jury decision in Ferguson. Watch.
A press conference is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET to announce the grand jury decision in the shooting of Michael Brown. Watch.