Rioting in Missouri. State of emergency declared.

[-relk-]

Originally posted by djdragan


This doesn't look so bad?

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ferguso...104-slideshow/

Looks like he got punched in the face to me

EDIT: You know what, no point in arguing with Toma, taking this back.

[CompletelyNumb]

I wonder how much more fun life would be if I were as loopy as Toma. I don't know how many bong hits I'd need to be at his level

[killramos]

Originally posted by CompletelyNumb
I wonder how much more fun life would be if I were as loopy as Toma. I don't know how many bong hits I'd need to be at his level

The paranoia would drive you to a level of incredible insanity. No sleeping. Can't enjoy time around other people. Become increasingly alone.

Sit in your fortress of solitude in your underwear and a shower robe. Browsing the inquirer on Tor with your only human contact being posts on beyond.

Sounds sad

I wouldn't wish Toma/Arash's life on anyone.

[Arash Boodagh]

Originally posted by killramos


Sounds sad

I wouldn't wish Toma/Arash's life on anyone.

You got your hands up there with that emotion icon.
Are emotions also judging your logic when you cant counter witness testimony about Browns hands being in the air?

Sheeple gonna sheep.

[Melinda]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html#comments

[A790]

Originally posted by Melinda
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html#comments

Sheeple.

[lilmira]

Back and to the left

Jury is a nut!

[Toma]

SHOCKING ' mistake' prosecutor made instructing jury.

Proof prosecution was on defendants side?!?

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/w...y-364273731666

[Toma]

No bias at all possible from a persecutor eh?

"McCulloch -- whose father, a police officer, was killed while responding to a call involving a black suspect --

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/prosecut...#ixzz3KJgK01nQ"

[Toma]

"Ordinarily a prosecutor uses the grand jury as a rubber stamp, and people complain about that. This time, he went to the grand jury because he wanted them to take the political heat for a difficult decision, and he gave the grand jurors an overload of information," said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor who teaches criminal law at Loyola University in Los Angeles. "So now people are criticizing that because the prosecutor's not taking responsibility for the decision."

David Sklansky, a criminal-law professor at Stanford University Law School, said the case in some ways underscores weaknesses in the grand jury system: "Grand juries don't do a terrific job as a check on overzealous prosecutors, but they're even worse as an independent check on a prosecutor who might be under-zealous,"

[Toma]

St. Louis County prosecutors may have misled the grand jury investigating the police shooting of Michael Brown into believing that Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson was justified in shooting Brown merely because the unarmed black 18-year-old fled from the officer, according to a review of the grand jury documents by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.

Before Wilson testified to the grand jury on September 16, prosecutors gave grand jurors an outdated statute that said police officers can shoot a suspect that's simply fleeing. This statute was deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 1985; the court ruled that a fleeing suspect must, at least in a police officer's reasonable view, pose a dangerous threat to someone or have committed a violent felony to justify a shooting.

Prosecutors, who had full control of the evidence presented to the grand jury, took more than two months to correct their mistake, O'Donnell said. The prosecutors on November 21 — just three days before the grand jury reached a decision — gave the correct standards to the grand jury. But as O'Donnell explained, the prosecutors didn't specify what exactly was wrong with the outdated statute — and they didn't even clearly say, after they were asked, to the grand jurors that Supreme Court rulings do indeed override Missouri law.

[rx7_turbo2]

It was a good thread while it lasted I guess

[egmilano]

Originally posted by rx7_turbo2


It was a good thread while it lasted I guess

Nah your missing out on great information.






i cant believe i just said that about toma =p

[rx7_turbo2]

Originally posted by egmilano
Nah your missing out on great information.

I can only imagine

[Toma]

National Bar Association objects to Grand Jury decision!!

Accuse prosecutor of not presenting the "airtight case" he could, but rather acts as DEFENSE!

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live/watc...g-364449347675

[Seth1968]

Africans and natives were conquering and enslaving others long before the white man came along.

They still do.

[Toma]

Adding more debate to the way the "crooked" prosecution handled the "murder by cop" case, legal experts ask why witnesses with near zero credibility were even presented?

Sunny Hostin, a former federal prosecutor, believes the state wanted to avoid presenting a clear-cut case that would have led to an indictment. "Prosecutors generally present very streamlined cases to the grand jury," she says. "As a prosecutor you should not present witnesses in front of the grand jury that you wouldn't present at trial."

"The prosecutors didn't want to indict," Hostin says. "That's why they conducted it that way."
.

and this is witness 40, who probably wasn't even there....

Video from that day shows no sign that her car was there, and the way she claims she drove home is physically impossible, authorities told her.
In later testimony, Witness 40 changed her story about some of what she saw and admitted to having gathered some details from news reports. She also gave a different reason for having allegedly been in Ferguson that day, and shared part of a journal that she claimed to have kept.
On the day of the killing, she posted a comment online saying, "They need to kill the f---ing n-----s. It is like an ape fest," the grand jury documents say. (CNN is redacting the "f" and "n" words, but she used them in full.)

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/justic...s-credibility/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2047404

http://gawker.com/darren-wilsons-key...iar-1671681384

[rx7_turbo2]

Originally posted by Toma
Adding more debate to the way the "crooked" prosecution handled the "murder by cop" case, legal experts ask why witnesses with near zero credibility were even presented?



and this is witness 40, who probably wasn't even there....



http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/justic...s-credibility/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2047404

http://gawker.com/darren-wilsons-key...iar-1671681384

Hostin is an intelligent women, but the Trayvon Martin case showed she has a tremendous bias in cases involving race.

Here's an honest question, given the predictable "heat" and protests that have taken place since the decision, would it not have been easier to throw the officer under the bus, and instead of doing everything to manipulate a vote not to indict, done everything to ensure it?