The Ferguson Prosecutor, McCullough, 'Failed' to get a GJ Indictment. How rare is this?

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25. I agree with you about the Police Chief's Statement.

It definitely contradicts what McCulloch said and I'm a little surprised no reporter asked about it the press conference. That is a point that definitely needs to be addressed. It's such an obvious point that I don't see how it could not have come up during the GJ proceedings. I don't have an explanation, but it's possible the Police Chief did not have all the facts when he made the statement.

I'm pretty skeptical that the discrepancy is part of a conspiracy having taken place, as a number of posters have suggested. I would think that a lot of evidence would have to be altered, a number of people would have to be onboard with a revised story and all would have to be consistent with each other. There couldn't be any leaks other or it would unravel pretty quickly and all of this would have to be done with the feds watching. Anything is possible, but successfully pulling off something like that would be very difficult in my opinion. Moreover, that assumes that everyone from the county prosecutor on down would be willing to participate. To be sure, there are a lot of dirtbags on police forces around the country, but I believe that most LEO's are honest, principled people whose moral compass would not allow them to participate in such a conspiracy. Even the dirtbags would have to weigh the risk and consequences of being caught before agreeing to alter evidence to get Brown off the hook. To me, the idea of a conspiracy is pretty far-fetched and I expect that there is a plausible explanation for what the chief said.

I don't have the time to read through the transcripts and evidence, but I'm sure a lot of people on DU are doing that now. We will undoubtedly learn more as that goes on and perhaps the question of probable cause will be definitively answered.

We really need to hear from the Justice Department on this matter to gain some perspective on this and hopefully, that will happen soon.