It is important to note here and say again that they are the only people, the only people, who have heard and examined every witness and every piece of evidence.
They discussed and debated the evidence among themselves before arriving at their collective decision.
After their exhaustive review of the evidence, the grand jury deliberated over two days, making their final decision.
They determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against Officer Wilson.
There you go.
No probable cause.
Did we really expect that we're going to find something else when the government investigates itself and does it secretly in a grand jury?
We've seen the fox guarding the hen house over and over again.
Whether it's the Gitmo torture reports or whether the CIA torture reports are being held up in the Senate.
Or whether it's the NSA, always the government is the one that investigates itself, does it in secret, and as you heard, he said, they are the only ones who have seen all of the evidence.
Understand that this was not a true trial.
This was a grand jury trial where only the prosecutor was controlling this.
The prosecutor controlled the evidence that they saw.
Evidence that he could present to them might not have been admissible in a real court of law.
Furthermore, do we know that he presented all of the evidence to them?
Was his heart really in this prosecution?
Did he really want to move this case forward and try it openly in court with a defendant, with a true prosecution from him, with a judge, with a jury?
Do it all openly in court so that everybody can see what's happening.
This is a very different trial than Robert McCullough, the fellow that you just saw here.
This district attorney has been practicing for 28 years.
He has never.
Conducted a grand jury investigation this way.
He is using this to give himself cover in order to let this officer go.
Now, Darren Wilson may have been justified in this.
Nevertheless, what people needed to see was that there was an open, transparent process with all the cards on the table, and that is not what we have seen.
Furthermore, we have seen many Much more clear-cut cases.
For example, in the Ohio Walmart with John Crawford, the 22-year-old father, who was shot dead because someone called in 911. He was holding a BB gun that he was going to buy from Walmart in one hand, and he was holding a phone in the other hand talking to his wife.
As the police showed up, they shot him dead.
We have the footage, the surveillance cameras from the store.
We know there were no extenuating circumstances of that.
It was cold-blooded murder.
There was no indictment performed there either.
And, of course, Eric Holder did not get involved there.
They drug this out, in my opinion, because they wanted this to go through the election.
It was something that they had a card that they could pull, trying to pull the race card, trying to pit white against black and make it about that rather than excessive Use a police force and a system that will not police itself.
Frank Serpico, who has been through this himself, has repeatedly said we cannot trust the system to police itself.
We have to have outside oversight.
The cards need to be on the table.
We need to see what happened, what evidence was presented, what was not presented.
How was the evidence presented?
We're not going to see that because grand jury proceedings are secret, as we have just witnessed over the last three months, the last about 100 days that they've been going through this.
This is something, again, I repeat, that this prosecutor has never done in his 28 years as a prosecutor.
He has never done a...
100 days worth of evidence with a grand jury.
It is a very simple thing to present some facts to the jury, to go ahead with a probable cause, to say we need to look at this further, and then to do that openly in a real, genuine court of law.
We have seen over and over again these sham courts, whether it is a court that's run by a bureaucracy, whether it's a traffic court, whether it's this nonsense Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, the FISA court.
It's not a court.
It is one government bureaucrat getting a rubber stamp from a judge without any opposition, without any oversight, without the public knowing what's going on, and that's what we're seeing here.
Unfortunately, we're not going to see any curtailment of excessive police force, but we are going to see a lot of people who are very angry.
I am very angry.
I'm angry that this is continually going on in this country and we're not pulling it back.
It doesn't make me feel any better that most of the people that are getting shot dead in the streets are black because not all the people that are getting shot are black.
It can happen to anyone.
We should all be concerned about this even if our lives are not in danger.
But understand this, you are not safe whether you are black, white, or whatever.
Cops can shoot you down on sight.
We've seen homeless men who are white.
We've seen them executed in the streets from a distance where the cops shoot when there's no threat to their lives and they keep shooting.
If it's murder, if you and I were to do that, that would be murder.
They do not get a pass because they're wearing a blue uniform.
I'm sorry.
I'm not very happy with this process.
Whether or not this officer was innocent, this process should be condemned.