OK, suppose for the moment that Wilson's shooting was justified. [View all]
What should McCullough have done?
The answer is simple. He should have adhered to standard prosecutorial practice in presenting information to the Grand Jury.
He did not.
First, because of his various connections to the case and his personal history, he should have stepped aside and let someone else run the show.
Worse, he let himself get sucked in as a participant in the media circus that was so industriously spewing flak, manipulating public opinion, & contaminating witness testimony in various ways.
Even worse, he used nonstandard methods that could be (and have been widely) construed as seeking to influence the outcome toward a No True Bill finding.
The combination of factors here, all attributable to the faulty judgment of the prosecutor, have led to an indeterminate situation from which neither clarity nor justice can emerge.
The full and true story is now obscured under the fog of misinformation, disinformation, and bad information for all of history.
A significant portion of America will never believe that the killing was justified. Another significant portion will forever believe the Wilson version. Another rift has been torn in the social fabric. A bad one.
All because the prosecutor, the police, and the media ganged up to make it so.
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