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Originally Posted by jar_e

That police officers are afforded more rights then your average citizen to uphold the law and do their job?

There's a reason why officer involved shootings in North America are usually never indicted and never seen a courtroom. There is rarely enough evidence to indict in the US system and rarely enough evidence to ever see a conviction in the Canadian system. This is a grand jury, a jury of peers, that are not indicting Wilson. They have seen the evidence, heard testimony. As much as we like to put cops on a stake, they are afforded the same rights as being innocent until proven guilty just as anyone else.

A jury of his peers (albeit a grand jury) had decided not to indict. This shouldn't be a shock. The whole thing was 50/50 anyways and even if he was indicted, his chance of conviction was slim to nil anyways.

You may think the system is flawed, corrupt, what have you. But they put it to a grand jury to see if there was enough. And there wasn't. You can't pick and choose when to use the justice system.

Oh the irony.