Here is a collection of the inconsistencies and failures of police and judicial procedure here in the case of the St. Louis County Prosecutor versus Darren Wilson. Let us remember that McCullough took on the case because of the outcry from the public and refused the request to recuse himself because of conflict of interest and allow a special prosecutor to be appointed. Here is the result: The Ferguson police committed grave errors of police procedure including allowing the accused officer to wash off evidence before examination; to drive himself alone to the Fraternal Order of Police (a private club) rather than be escorted back to the police station by a supervisor; to be photographed of his injuries at the Fraternal Order of Police rather than at headquarters; to handle his own gun for hours before packaging it himself for evidence; the medical examiner dispatched to photograph the body of Michael Brown arrived on the scene without batteries in his camera; the police ultimately filed a blank homicide report. The supposed prosecutor, McCullough, handled the matter in a completely different manner than the vast majority of grand juries where the prosecutor is actively pushing to press charges. His performance appears on every level to be an active fraud against the public. McCulloughs cross examination of the man he is prosecuting includes him sympathizing with Wilsons stressful position. His assistants hand the grand jurors an version of Missouri law shown to be unconstitutional and they tell them to disregard it because it is not entirely incorrect or inaccurate, but there is something in it thats not correct, so ignore it totally. When asked by a juror to elaborate, the assistant prosecutor says, We dont want to get into a law class. Consider trial attorney Lisa Blooms evisceration of the tea party McCullough held for Wilson in lieu of cross-examining him to take apart his statements. The list goes on and on. For those still sitting comfortably at the borders of outrage, looking askance at the looting and thinking ill thoughts of the dead teenager, ask yourselves - Have you no standards for our public officials? May they exercise the right of life and death over a free people without the ability to meet a very minimum standard of competence? The power structure of St. Louis should be audited, overseen, surveilled, reformed, investigated, punished and incarcerated until it is clear that they can perform their jobs up to a minimum level of ethics, morality and competence that is the birthright of a free people in a democratic republic. Or do we deserve whatever we get? Are we in a police state, and thus should we say thank you as our public servants smash citizens in the face with batons, shoot 12-year olds with toy guns, and then run the judicial process like a complete farce? Ill tell you this much: many people in St. Louis tonight pray that you accept this as normal. Will you?
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:18:03 +0000
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