Prosecutors Declined — Again — To Charge The Ferguson Police Officer Who Shot Michael Brown
Posted on AllSides July 30th, 2020
From The Left
Nearly six years after Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer, sparking months of protests in the Missouri city and across the US, a county prosecutor announced Thursday that his office will not charge the officer after reinvestigating the case.
The white officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot Brown, 18, on Aug. 9, 2014, while attempting to detain the Black teenager for his role in a theft at a convenience store. In November 2014, a grand jury cleared Wilson of criminal charges after the officer testified that...