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Perhaps the defining moment of the Black Lives Matter movement, at least before George Floyd, was the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.\u00a0 It gave rise to the slogan, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” which supposedly captured the moment in which Brown, with hands up and peacefully approaching white Police Officer Darren Wilson, was shoot dead for no reason.\u00a0 That slogan is still shouted at BLM rallies today.<\/p>\n

A new prosecutor, a black man, Wesley Bell, was elected in St. Louis County in 2018.\u00a0 He reopened the investigation.\u00a0 Result:\u00a0 Darren Wilson is still not guilty of any crime that could be proven to a jury under the same standards applied to everyone else.<\/p>\n

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The New York Times has the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Six years after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, a Black teenager, in Ferguson, Mo., another investigation into the killing has come to the same conclusion as the first: The officer should not be charged.<\/p>\n

The officer, Darren Wilson, already had been\u00a0cleared by a grand jury<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0a federal investigation<\/a>\u00a0months after the shooting in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The federal investigation was conducted by Barack Obama’s Justice Department under Eric Holder.<\/p>\n

It’s especially noteworthy that the most recent, and third, investigation was conducted by Bell, described in the story as follows:<\/p>\n

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Mr. Bell himself is a product of the change brought on by Mr. Brown\u2019s death. Activists heavily criticized the longtime prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, who led the grand jury process that resulted in no indictment. Mr. Bell, who is Black,\u00a0unseated Mr. McCulloch in the Democratic primary<\/a>\u00a0two years ago as part of a nationwide wave of reform-minded people of color winning prosecutor races. Ferguson\u00a0elected its first Black mayor<\/a>, Ella Jones, this year.<\/p>\n

But as Mr. Bell left the lectern on Thursday, a man yelled at him, saying he would be voted out and criticizing his decision not to charge Mr. Wilson.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The story implies, although it does not say in haec verba, that Bell was supported by Soros money, and thus gained office the same way Larry Krasner did in Philadelphia.\u00a0 If this is so, then hats off to Bell for following the law rather than political tides, and for risking (as he certainly knew he was risking) the “string-him-up-and-law-be-damned” mentality still very much alive, if not more menacing than ever, in people like the fellow who shouted at him at the end of the news conference.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the defining moment of the Black Lives Matter movement, at least before George Floyd, was the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.\u00a0 It gave rise to the slogan, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” which supposedly captured the moment in which Brown, with hands up and peacefully approaching white Police Officer Darren Wilson, was shoot dead for no reason.\u00a0 That slogan is still shouted at BLM rallies today. A new prosecutor, a black man, Wesley Bell, was elected in St. Louis County in 2018.\u00a0 He reopened the investigation.\u00a0 Result:\u00a0 Darren Wilson is still not guilty of any crime that could be proven to a jury under the same standards applied to everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notorious-cases","category-policing"],"yoast_head":"\nStill Not Guilty, but Still Hounded - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1753\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Still Not Guilty, but Still Hounded - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Perhaps the defining moment of the Black Lives Matter movement, at least before George Floyd, was the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO.\u00a0 It gave rise to the slogan, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” which supposedly captured the moment in which Brown, with hands up and peacefully approaching white Police Officer Darren Wilson, was shoot dead for no reason.\u00a0 That slogan is still shouted at BLM rallies today. 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