FERGUSON, MI – Following an intense, months-long investigation into the police shooting of 18 year-old Michael Brown, a St. Louis county grand jury has discovered Officer Darren Wilson was white at the time of the shooting.
“It’s never a good thing when a young man is gunned down by a law enforcement official, particularly when there appeared to be no real reason for the level of brutality exhibited,” said Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson. “But the facts are the facts. The officer was, and I cannot stress this enough, a white man. The grand jury had no choice.”
“This kind of decision making is the foundation of the U.S. criminal justice system.”
The bulk of the investigation consisted of a forensic examination of both Brown and Wilson’s pigmentation. Rather than let the case go to trial, the grand jury instead followed the binding legal precedent set by multiple other police shootings of black men and decided against indictment.
Robert McCullogh, St. Louis county prosecutor, endorsed the Police Chief’s claim that there was no basis for the indictment.
“The jury received conflicting accounts from witnesses at the scene. Some said Brown punched Wilson, thereby requiring the officer to deliver a proportionate response of several 9mm bullets; others said Brown had his hands up. What was consistent from all the testimony was that Officer Wilson was and, to the best of our knowledge, still is, Caucasian.”
At press time, a riot gear wearing police office throwing tear gas was demanding a Ferguson protester behave in a peaceful manner.
