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Darren Wilson,
Ferguson,
Michael Brown,
Race relations,
Richard Epstein
The most
recent news from Ferguson concerns what Eric
Holder has rightly called the
“ambush shooting” of two police officers outside the city’s police
department.
This
incident occurred in the wake of two detailed reports released by the
Department of Justice. The first report deals in depth with the shooting of
Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The report recommended
that the case against him be closed. The second DOJ report contained a scathing indictment of the
sad state of affairs within the entire criminal justice system of Ferguson. The
combined effect of these two reports is likely to make matters worse in
Ferguson by combining the back-handed exoneration of Darren Wilson with the
unstinting condemnation of the City of Ferguson.
Labels:
Darren Wilson,
Michael Brown,
Richard Epstein,
Rule of Law,
US Affairs
As most people by now know, on August 9 of this year, 18 year-old Michael Brown, a black man, was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a 28 year-old white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. On November 19, the Ferguson Grand Jury decided not to indict Wilson.
Few events this year have attracted more attention than the fatal interaction between Brown and Wilson and the grand jury decision to not to prosecute Wilson for any criminal offense from manslaughter to murder.
The chorus of criticism in response to these events in Ferguson has been harsh, widespread, and unrelenting. To many activists and social critics, Ferguson reveals that racism remains unabated in the United States 50 years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
