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[shadesong]

I'm with Adam here.

Originally posted by yendi at So
I went to bed last night before the Ferguson lack of indictment was announced. But I can't say I was surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised. Between the decision to announce at night and the gathering of police, it was pretty obvious that they were not going to indict Darren Wilson, and that the

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[conuly]

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[shadesong]

They are on his.

[conuly]

Ah. Now it all makes sense and I feel like a teeny bit of a doofus. (But on the plus side, anybody else wanting to make that same comment is not going to. I took one for the team here, let's frame it that way.)

[shadesong]

No worries! LJ makes the reblogged-post thing super unclear. :(

[drwex]

This appears to be as fucked-up as it was inevitable. There's some argument that grand juries as a system are variously outdated, useless, prejudicial, and we ought to abolish them as the English have. I doubt that'll happen.

I do expect to see a Federal indictment handed down. That also seems inevitable.

What's really badly unclear to me is whether any of this will stem the tide. Right now we live in a country where more and more people (usually of color) are getting shot by police unnecessarily and wrongfully. What do we have to do to turn that around?