Did you see the point that Chris Hayes made about the county prosecutor??

[grasswire]

Whew!

Today, that man released a statement condemning Governor Nixon for humiliating the locla police. A very strong pro-cop statement.

This prosecutor will be the one who decides whether to charge the officer.

Does anyone have the name of that prosecutor? I didn't get it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Bob McColloch

A true douchenozzle.

[grasswire]

2. what a shame

It may be a real battle to get justice for Brown.

[VanGoghRocks]

16. Not to be a pedantic douchenozzle, but I think his last

name is spelled 'McCulloch'. I've also seen multiple iterations of 'McCullough.'

I'm posting for people searching under various iterations of his name. Theoretically, Google will find all iterations.

Also found this link to story in St. Louis Post Dispatch's online edition:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/mcculloch-blasts-nixon-for-replacing-st-louis-county-police-control/article_0806541b-ed48-5d06-9267-323531ad6cf1.html

[onecaliberal]

3. I'm pretty sure they will seat a grand jury and

Charge the cop with a federal offense.

[SunSeeker]

4. That's why Obama brought Holder in.

Holder's people have been interviewing witnesses and building their case.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014871186

[easychoice]

12. They gassed a U.S. Senator

There is no way this is going to fade away.Especially since she is really pissed about it.

[Are_grits_groceries]

17. It was a state senator. nt

[easychoice]

20. mia culpa. all the confusion

No excuse - just confused...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/missouri-state-senator-says-she-was-gassed-in-ferguson-asked

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[abakan]

19. The prosecutor only tells the Grand jury what he wants it to know.

When my brother was killed by a cop. The district attorney half heartily went to the grand jury and came out with a justified shooting in three minutes. My brother died with a phone in his hand.

[bettyellen]

5. sounds like the protesters did good getting this out of the hands of locals

[sabrina 1]

6. I saw him on the news tonight, he looked like a teabagger. Said they would absolutely do a thorough

and fair investigation in order to make sure they have the facts.

I don't know if they can move the investigation out of the jurisdiction where the crime occurred. But he will have the FBI and the DOJ looking over his shoulder. So that is something.

[VanGoghRocks]

8. I caught portions of his press conference yesterday and he looked like he was

smirking. Nothing concrete I could definitely nail down, so I wrote it off at the time to my projecting my own hot feelings about the matter onto him. I'm relieved to find out I'm not the only one who was creeped out by his 'look'.

[Rex]

7. Then he can expect to lose out to the federal government. This is bigger now.

Obama made it clear, the local cop brass needs to start working with state and federal law enforcement while they work this case.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. From my perspective as an outside observer?

The local police did a pretty good job of humiliating themselves by showing they were completely unfit. Things like arrest and intimidation of the press--the two reporters arrested, plus firing tear gas canisters at news crews with cameras? These are things that made what was happening in Ferguson front-page news in papers like the New York Times and Washington Post. If the past week has made anything evident it's that there is something seriously wrong with the police culture in Ferguson. There are deeper questions to be asked there--for instance, the degree to which racism plays a part, in a town that's 67% black with a police force that's 95% white; I would guess that it's a serious part of the problem, just based on some of the things I've seen relating to the protests and police officers on the scene referring to protesters as "animals". I would be very surprised if, after all of this, the Ferguson PD weren't the target of a DOJ civil rights inquiry.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. I do,...but it's NSFW.

[lexington filly]

11. National spotlight: Interruptus Coveruptum?

How "smells like a cover-up" of a kid getting murdered is this? It turns out the head of the Ferguson police force is a retired St. Louis police officer. So to convince the Ferguson community of the fairness of a full, impartial investigation, he turns it over to the head of the St. Louis police force for said investigation, who has a long history of being his brother in blue in same police department. This according to one of the mainstream news sites. May have been Chris Hayes show, just don't remember as I've followed this tragedy since it happened.

Or....head of Ferguson may have figured he couldn't be honest and expose his employee and survive in his job. Hmmm... But now that they are all on the national radar Plan A will be difficult to pull off regardless of original motives.

[Humanist_Activist]

13. He's a Democrat, and probably the only Democrat on the ticket this fall that I will vote against...

what an asshole.

He has no Republican opponent. In fairness I voted for Leslie Broadnax in the Democratic primary that occurred 10 days ago.

[TorchTheWitch]

14. No he won't. It goes to a grand jury n/t

[lexington filly]

15. Good Lord! Spoke.com about THE prosecutor:

Except for a cruel twist of fate, Bob McCulloch conceivably could have been St. Louis police chief and possibly even president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), instead of prosecuting attorney of St. Louis County, Missouri, and the new president of NDAA.
The police professions loss is NDAA’s gain.
McCulloch, who assumed the presidency of NDAA during the association’s summer conference in Snowmass, Colorado, originally

wanted to be a St. Louis police officer, like his father, who died in an exchange of gunfire with a kidnapping suspect. There’s little doubt that with McCulloch’s drive and abilities, he would have been a fine police officer and would have risen to the top of that profession, as he has in prosecution.
But as a profile in the March/April 2000 issue of The Prosecutor noted, fate intervened in an ironic way. While in high school, where he was an outstanding distance runner, he was diagnosed with bone cancer and lost his left leg. This ended his running career and any chance of becoming a police officer

[whistler162]

18. He will decide if there will be local charges

he has no say over Federal charges. Before you slip into full outrage mode why don't you wait until he says something about whether he will or won't charge the officer and with what he will charge him with if he does.