November Post: Ferguson Case

This video is a short analysis of the decision and jury information of the controversial Ferguson case. On Monday, the grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, 28, for the fatal shooting of an unarmed Michael Brown, 18. The decision on this case has caused large unrest in many places outside of Ferguson, Missouri as we see protests here in Los Angeles. The questioning factors are definitely the prosecutor's strange and unique handling of the case and also the number of jury members. Some reports say that there will be additional checks on the case, but for the most part, the grand jury's decision is the final decision. I think that there needs to be more attention to the handling of the case, the fact that this is not the only case like this, and what we can do to move from this. In a normal case, grand juries receive information about the case at the discretion of the prosecutor and specific charge is laid out. In this case, the jury was given so much evidence that they needed to have 25 meeting over the course of 3 months when usually it only takes a few days. Also, the prosecutor laid out 5 charges to be considered and the decision to prosecute up to the jury. There definitely needs to be more investigation on the strange way this case was handled. I think that the violence to the innocent people in the communities does not solve the problem, and that there needs to be change so that this does not keep happening.