Well it looks like we might be making some progress in the Michael Brown case. A grand jury has been selected and they are deciding rather to charge the police officer with murder or not. Unfortunately, African Americans are the minority on the jury. Is this a set up? This was the same problem for the Trayvon Martin case! Hit the jump for more details on this one.
Nine whites and three blacks will decide whether to charge a Missouri cop with killing 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The breakdown of the St. Louis County grand jury weighing evidence against Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson was released Friday by a state court judge at the request of Bloomberg News.
Wilson is white. Brown was black. And outrage over the unarmed teen’s killing two weeks ago fueled violent demonstrations and scattered looting in Ferguson.
While Ferguson is a mostly African-American suburb, the grand jurors were selected from a countywide pool of registered voters.
St. Louis County, which does not include the city of St. Louis, is about 23% African-American, according to U.S. Census figures.
Let’s hope they do the right thing and bring justice to the Brown family.
I think they should kill him because blacks are slaughtered like cattle for more then 1 reason but Killin of another race has they see lower than there self should stop an this should be the start of there judgment. Because everyone is equal ..no one is born racist ….
This article is clearly slanted and covered with race-bating remarks. As a journalist, it’s not your job to be judge and jury. As you sit here and “report” on this matter of a young man being killed (regardless of the reasons) you are perpetuating the “racial divide” that our country has become victim to as of late. I have a general question for you @realstefan_ Do you even realize that based on this “article” you are more racist than those around you? Do you firmly believe that because there are more whites than black on the jury, that this is truly a set up? Are you profiling the color of 12 people’s skin in order to further your agenda of writing an article on racial tension? You are not a solution to the problem of racism, you are a cause. You are not fighting for equality, you are further dividing racial lines by reporting like this. If you’d like to argue about black vs white, why not read the article about Dillon Taylor Black vs. white crime James Whitehead vs. Robert Arnold.
Everyone is aware the Brown was a thug and a bully. He robbed a store and attacked a cop. He didnt deserve to die but he was no angel and the cop who did it is no murderer.
You must be slow or one of those that does no investigation in the things you know nothing about before you post. The ZImmerman trial was a jury of HIS peers, not trayvon (the other violent worthless thug). This grand jury verdict is a make up of the COUNTY of St Louis not just that hood ass town. The make up of the grand jury is exactly what the COUNTY is not that shithole ferguson which will experience even more white flight as no one wants to live among a bunch of violent savages. Just like Detroit the people who can afford to move will those who won’t will be stuck there. At least google shit before you post. I know your target demographic is not the educated, but you could change that little by little, starting with yourself. You are nothing but a race baiter yourself.