One of the lawyers for Michael Brown’s family, Benjamin Crump, on Tuesday criticized the indictment process and the St. Louis County grand jury’s decision not to charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
“This process is broken,” he said during a press conference.
Crump said that he objected to Prosecutor Bob McCulloch when he was first chosen to handle the case and reiterated on Tuesday that he felt the process was “completely unfair.”
“We could foresee what the outcome was going to be, and that’s exactly what occurred last night,” he said.
Crump added that he felt a first year law student would have done a better job cross-examining Wilson than McCulloch did.
He said that the process for charging officers in on-duty shootings needs to change because “it continues to yield the same results.”
“We know that our children deserve equal justice,” he said.
At the end of his statement, Crump called for legislation requiring police officers to wear body cameras while on duty.
Sharpton really crystallized how McCulloh subverted the system. Poking holes in the Grand Jury testimony will be a useless diversion - the magician’s sleight of hand. The real dirty business was accomplished by failing to forcefully advocate for prosecution before the Grand Jury.
“This process is broken,”
I dunno man…I’m real tempted to say “feature not a bug,” in which case it’s working exactly how it’s intended to work (which is precisely the problem).
Actually, I believe the process worked exactly as McCulloch planned.
What would Mr Crump be saying if Michael Brown had been successful in grabbing the cops gun, then shooting and killing him?
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Intended consequence…
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