My nephew is a 29 year cop said this about Ferguson.

[earthside]

14. Excellent points. And as to the findings of the grand jury ...

... it is so important to point out that a grand jury is not a trial!

Yet this is precisely how the right-wing is spinning this whole controversy: that the results and 'evidence' of the grand jury proceedings are determinative.

Indeed, one of the big attack lines of the racist-right is that there should even be perjury prosecutions of witnesses that did not corroborate Wilson's testimony.

Without an adversarial proceeding like a trial, we really cannot arrive at a reasonable judgement about what happened in Ferguson to Michael Brown. A court room trial is the basis of our system of 'justice'.

On the face of it, it appears that we have a case here of prosecutors working on behalf of the accused/perpetrator and not seeking truth or justice.

There should have been an independent special prosecutor.