The Ongoing Question: Why Wasn't Officer Wilson Arrested?

[ancianita]

This was news sent to me from a black lawyer friend in New York. He agrees with the legal take on the questions we've discussed here. Hope it helps.

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/so-why-wasnt-officer-wilson-arrested-plus-answers-other-questions-about-law?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=FBStLouisPublicRadio3814

[HooptieWagon]

1. McCullough declined to prosecute the 4 officers who beat Henry Davis...

... in 2009, causing serious injury. The arresting officer charged Davis with destruction of public property for bleeding on the beating officer's uniforms. Upon being deposed under oath for the civil suit, the officer claimed no beating took place, and Davis never was bleeding. Hospital records show Davis suffered a severe concussion, and a photograph taken by the hospital shows him bleeding profusely from head wounds. Davis had been picked up on an outstanding warrant, but even before the beating the booking personel at the jail identified him as the wrong person.
So, there is unlawful arrest and detention, excessive force, a trumped up charge, falsifying police report, and perjury under oath. More than enough for McCullough to have brought charges, yet he refused. The Brown protests didn't just spring up from a void, they are in response to decades of abuse by police and the refusal of DAs and SAs to rein in that abuse.

[ancianita]

4. Important context. Thanks for your post.

[jwirr]

2. So it sounds like this sob is going to get off with both counts. If that happens it stinks and it

will be the last straw for many of us when it comes to justice from the courts.

[exboyfil]

3. Lethal force is an element of LEO's

job. Rarely if ever are they arrested at the scene even if later to have been found to have committed murder in front of other police.

Look up the case of Samantha Ramsey for another recent example of a police officer not being charged (or not even charged as yet) for a shooting. That one was an unarmed (unless you consider her car) pretty blonde white girl.

Christopher Roupe is another recent one. You have every right to answer your door in Georgia with a weapon in your hand. Roupe may have had something in his hand but it surely was not a weapon.

Just like the Martin investigation the police started out making all sorts of mistakes (not securing the cops car being one of the first). Not to mention the totally improper statements made by the Chief of Police at the beginning. After that it was all down hill.

[bigdarryl]

5. Because that police department is a good old boy network they protect there own

If you notice they don't have cameras in there police vehicles.Thats because they don't want to be seen beating and harassing African Americans