Anxieties mount as Ferguson waits on grand jury

[Droning Predator]

Source: Associated Press


By DAVID A. LIEB and ANDALE GROSS
Nov. 23, 2014 11:18 PM EST

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Despite preparations for a weekend decision in the Ferguson shooting case, the grand jurors apparently need more time to deliberate, and the uncertainty just seemed to feed the anxiety and speculation Sunday in a city already on edge.

More than 3½ months have passed since police Officer Darren Wilson, who is white, killed unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown after a confrontation in the middle of a street in the St. Louis suburb. The shooting triggered riots and looting, and police responded with armored vehicles and tear gas.

Many in the area thought a grand jury decision on whether to charge Wilson with a crime would be announced Sunday, based partly on a stepped-up police presence in the preceding days, including the setting up of barricades around the building where the panel was meeting.

The grand jurors met Friday but apparently didn't reach a decision, and they were widely expected to reconvene on Monday, though there was no official confirmation of that.


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But as the story goes on to explain, there WERE protests on Ferguson tonight.

[davidpdx]

1. I tend to agree that they are waiting to release this on Wednesday afternoon

in order to prevent the protests and essentially try to deflate the entire movement to get justice for Brown. If the result is no indictment, it's going to be very hard.

[Sherman A1]

4. Or

it could be that the Grand Jury is still deliberating and will release their findings when they get done.

[C Moon]

2. We all know what the verdict will be. It's always in favor of law enforcement.

[FreakinDJ]

3. I'm afraid this whole country is about to explode

I'm sitting here at work in Richmond Calif. and all day all we have heard on the news are all the public service groups trying to defuse any possible outcome from the Grand jury findings

And now with this 12yr old boy killed ...

If it was HOT and in the Summer time it already would have ignited

[ReRe]

5. I agree with you...

... in that each day that is delayed, yet another killing of a black child by a white officer takes place and the temperature goes up a notch.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. I'm not

I just don't think the country will explode.

Implode - maybe. A lot of people (including myself) will snicker and sneer at the fakey fake phoney baloney stuff come January and MLK's birthday. But that will be long after this grand jury verdict comes back.

[KingCharlemagne]

9. What happens to a dream deferred? (Continues)

Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

~Langston Hughes

[snooper2]

10. probably not

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The media is fueling the hysteria for their own nefarious purposes. nt

[heaven05]

8. the fine art

of amerikkkan BS concerning execution of unarmed blacks people at play in ferguson. Nothing that's NOT understood by recipients of that execution mentality. Keep half stepping ferguson 'authorities', maybe all the black people will be murdered/executed and you won't have any worries at all.