How a Killer Got Away with Murder

[DemocratsForProgress]

Walter Rhett: How a Killer Got Away with Murder

Not only protesters but the system of American justice is morally and intellectually out of control. Justice is in the hands of vigilantes who are brutes intent on robbing liberty without fear of rebuke, and America is proving false to its own promise, indifferent and deaf to its whirlwinds of cruelty. Much of America revels instead in the brutish delight that shines in its inner soul, as it calls others demons and reveals how it has lost its reverence for providence or truth.

With blood on its hands, it has no legitimacy lecturing the aggrieved about safety or destruction, when it has proven it will not protect the lives of youth unarmed, when its lust for killing spreads unchecked to every border, when a single prosecutor cloaked as an agent of authority manipulates the system and calls its darkest evils fair play, taking a measure of time to display a sentiment of contempt and arrogance, putting a default on liberty without life and improvement. Power pretends concessions as it silently approves citizens’ peril by emptying life from souls lying still against curbstones—bodies left in plain view for all to see the pride of termination taken in the kill and the madness of this accruing demand and the political taste for blood, blood to gratify an exasperated illogic, that bullets weighed on the scale of human powers make some unworthy and inferior, and that their general dislike warrants this impression and sanction of foul play.

Michael Brown’s death was a modern, “justified” lynching. Months after, his killer is uncharged.

Focus in: the local prosecutor, his father a police officer killed by a black civilian, his mother a police department clerk, his family still serving on the force, should have been immediately removed for a special prosecutor. The Governor failed to do so...

More at: http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2014/11/27/how-a-killer-got-away-with-murder/

[NYC_SKP]

1. Thank you, DFP!

I don't check in there nearly as often as I should!

http://www.democratsforprogress.com/

[daleanime]

2. K&R....

[freshwest]

3. Justice is in the hands of vigilantes who are brutes intent on robbing liberty w/o fear of rebuke...

And people still drool over 'I'm not afraid, I feel safe, like I've got my own private security force' says Rand Paul at a gun rally promoting overthrow of the federal government.

With militia men and their rifles at the ready, standing on either side of him like a fascist dictator because that is what they want.

So very close that sentence by Walter there.

Why must we go this way?

Oh, no. Not because of the Koch brothers and ALEC.

Maybe because of Freedom and Liberty.

More likely...

Because... Obama.

This is has all been an effing disappointment to me (and the world, I dare to say).

Thanks for posting this. Will go to DFP but have a lot of trouble with the formatting for reading there, and can't post there. It's a good website.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Oh, this isn't about STL

[NYC_SKP]

5. No, it IS very much about St. Louis and it's corruption in the Mike Brown case from the beginning.

Michael Brown’s death was a modern, “justified” lynching. Months after, his killer is uncharged.

Focus in: the local prosecutor, his father a police officer killed by a black civilian, his mother a police department clerk, his family still serving on the force, should have been immediately removed for a special prosecutor. The Governor failed to do so.

This prosecutor then took his knowledge of the system and created a secret jury that tried guilt and determined innocence before charges were brought. The roles of the participants reversed and switched, the grand jury did not take up the matter of guilt for trial, but began to try, by its impressions and its unchallengeable decision, whether the killer of Michael Brown, a police officer on duty, was innocent.

The prosecutor pressed the case and made clear the impression that Michael Brown’s killer had committed no crime. He did not present a bill of indictment to the grand jury. He never specified any offense—manslaughter or murder—or any degree—recklessness, negligence, maliciousness, intent—he as prosecutor supported by law, evidence or testimony of the killer’s actions or guilt.