By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings
While I try to make this blog an informative one (especially on the subject of the doings of the Arizona legislature), its genesis was as a place to vent.
One of the reasons that I haven’t written about the non-indictment of Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is that there are so many thoughts trying to get out that I haven’t been able to organize them.
However, the time that has passed hasn’t done anything to help those thoughts simmer down, so it is time to return this blog to its roots – as a vent.
Here goes –
1. Have no doubt: the prosecutor in the case, Bob McCulloch, tanked the case.
There’s an aphorism about prosecutors being able to indict a ham sandwich. I don’t know if it is 100% accurate, but if that ham sandwich was stolen, almost all he would have needed to indict Wilson would have been to show that Wilson was in the same time zone as the sandwich when it went missing.
Nearly all grand juries do exactly what the prosecutors leading them want done.
Of course, given that McCulloch is the president of an organization that raised money for Wilson’s defense, that appears to be exactly what happened in this case.
2. There have been people, perhaps people of good intent, who have looked to
