re: #137 lawhawk

Wilson would probably have a lawyer by now, and his counsel would probably tell him not to say anything, to protect his rights against self incrimination. That would go for both the county and FPD reports.

The grand jury could call him to testify, but that again runs into his right against self incrimination.

But that doesn’t exclude the police from forming a report without him. There are enough details that could have been put together without Wilson’s statements. And where are the interviews with the other cops who were next to arrive on scene - nothing about securing perimeter, evidence, gathering cellphones, nothing.

I’m too young to have seen this first hand, but this Ferguson PD crap seems very similar to what must have happened many times in the Jim Crow era, where the killing of any black person is officially a non-event, especially if the perpetrator is a cop.

Holder and Obama need to come down on this like a ton of bricks. We don’t have Romney in the White House, and that needs to make a difference in this case.