MoveOn Petition: Appoint a Special Prosecutor to Investigate the Murder of Michael Brown

[Faryn Balyncd]

11. Well, for starters, here are 3 reasons to ponder:

(1.) McCulloch has unusually deep family ties to PD, including a police officer father killed in the line of duty when McCulloch was 12.


(2.) McCulloch recently chose to inject himself into the political spotlight with strident criticism of Gov. Nixon's decision to send in the Highway Patrol, accusing the governor of "denigrating" St. Louis County PD:

McCulloch blasts Nixon

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch Thursday night blasted the decision by Gov. Jay Nixon to replace St. Louis County Police control of the Ferguson situation with the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

“It's shameful what he did today, he had no legal authority to do that," McCulloch said. "To denigrate the men and women of the county police department is shameful."

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/mcculloch-blasts-nixon-for-replacing-st-louis-county-police-control/article_0806541b-ed48-5d06-9267-323531ad6cf1.html





“He (McCulloch) injected himself in a matter in a way that further exacerbates the community distrust of him....Rather than stay focused on the investigation, the prosecuting attorney decided to wade over into a whole other area and challenge the governor. He inflamed the community, which already distrusts him.”

http://theobamacrat.com/2014/08/19/st-louis-county-prosecuting-attorney-bob-mcculloch-recuse-yourself/

(3.) McCulloch has a history of not prosecuting officers who kill unarmed suspects with multiple shots and falsely report the suspects moving toward them:

In 2001, two undercover drug officers from Dellwood shot and killed two men on the parking lot of a Jack in the Box in north St. Louis County. The officers said the suspects, who had prior felony convictions for drug and assault offenses, tried to escape arrest and then drove toward the officers.

A subsequent federal investigation showed that the men were unarmed and that their car had not moved forward when the officers fired 21 shots and killed the suspects, Earl Murray and Ronald Beasley. The probe, however, also concluded that because the officers feared for their safety, the shootings were justified.

McCulloch didn’t prosecute the officers. He specifically drew the ire of defense lawyers and protesters, who had been holding demonstrations and threatened to block Highway 40,when he said of Murray and Beasley, “These guys were bums.”


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-prosecutor-has-faced-controversy-for-decades/article_cdd4c104-6086-506e-9ee8-aa957a31fee5.html

Objectivity of prosecutor in Missouri shooting of Michael Brown is questioned
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/objectivity-of-prosecutor-in-missouri-shooting-of-michael-brown-is-questioned/2014/08/15/1fe20690-24bc-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html



St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch, Recuse Yourself.
http://theobamacrat.com/2014/08/19/st-louis-county-prosecuting-attorney-bob-mcculloch-recuse-yourself/