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grand jury

 

A grand jury (since 1166) is made up of 12 to 23 people. It is used by public prosecutors, sometimes judges, to look into possible wrongdoing, generally a serious crime like murder, rape or fraud.

They do not determine guilt, but whether there should be a trial.

Grand juries can issue an indictment. It lists which people are to be brought to trial charged with what crimes.


Judges can also determine whether there should be a trial by holding apreliminary hearing with the lawyers from both sides.


Public prosecutors (county prosecutors, district attorneys, state attorneys, etc) can also bring charges on their own if there is enough evidence – even when the grand jury returns no indictment.

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Police brutality: Public prosecutors are in bed with the police: they work with them and depend on them. That creates a conflict of interest when the police commit a crime. Throwing it to a grand jury gives an appearance of fairness, but because grand juries rarely disagree with prosecutors, it becomes a way to avoid bringing charges. That is how the police officers who killed Michael Brown, Eric Garner and John Crawford avoided arrest, trial and prison.

 

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St. Louis Police Now Investigating Five Fatal Shootings

 

The other deaths currently being investigated include 27-year old Stephon Averyhart, who was shot in the forehead by police who suspected he was armed back in February; 30-year-old Christopher Jones, who was shot in the heart during a struggle with an unnamed officer in July; 25-year-old Kajieme Powell, whose death at the hands of police and his erratic nature pre-shooting sparked a debate about the moral justification of deadly force in August (video above); and the aforementioned Myers, who officers claim shot at them three times but then they retaliated by shooting at Meyers 17 times.

 

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A CNN Lawyer Has Had Enough With Her Ignorant Co-Host. She Tells It EXACTLY How It Is.

This is somehow both shocking and unsurprising.

Source: www.upworthy.com

 

White people are always saying it’s not about race.

 

They have no proof that it’s not about race.

 

I think it clearly IS about race.

 

I been given a FREE PASS as a white person when dealing with the police. And even more so during a stop when he saw my daughter in the back seat.

 

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Cop Allows K-9 to Maul Handcuffed, Face Down Suspect, Then Blames it On Him

 

Green Forest, AR — A disturbing body cam video was uploaded to Facebook Thursday which shows a Green Forest police officer let go of his K-9 after other officers had a suspect face down and in handcuffs.

The graphic video does not lie.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-k-9-maul-handcuffed-face-suspect-blames/#uTPPKodLXQsiblWK.99

 

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NYPD officer knocks teen unconscious with punch over suspicious cigarette [VIDEO]

 

Thank you Daily News

Marcel Hamer, 17, was punched out June 4, 2014 as he pleaded with the officer that he was smoking a tobacco cigarette, not marijuana. ‘You wanna get fucked up?’ the cop asks before dropping the hammer. The officer has since been suspended in the latest viral video black eye for the NYPD.

 

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Welcome to the Hunger Games: Ferguson, Gentrification, and Power

 

Hunger Games

 

“Residents of the wealthy capitol watch on television as the competitors tear each other apart, entertaining them while confirming the need for subjugation and segregation of the districts.”

 

Source: www.racefiles.com

 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that his fear was that African Americans have been integrated into a burning building.