Well it looks like we might be making some progress in the Michael Brown case. A grand jury has been selected and they are deciding rather to charge the police officer with murder or not. Unfortunately, African Americans are the minority on the jury. Is this a set up? This was the same problem for the Trayvon Martin case! Hit the jump for more details on this one.
Nine whites and three blacks will decide whether to charge a Missouri cop with killing 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The breakdown of the St. Louis County grand jury weighing evidence against Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson was released Friday by a state court judge at the request of Bloomberg News.
Wilson is white. Brown was black. And outrage over the unarmed teen’s killing two weeks ago fueled violent demonstrations and scattered looting in Ferguson.
While Ferguson is a mostly African-American suburb, the grand jurors were selected from a countywide pool of registered voters.
St. Louis County, which does not include the city of St. Louis, is about 23% African-American, according to U.S. Census figures.
Let’s hope they do the right thing and bring justice to the Brown family.
