A St. Louis County grand jury has declined to indict Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed Black teen Michael Brown.
Prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch spent several minutes citing inconsistencies in the testimony of some of the 60 witnesses that testified during 70 hours of proceedings. He also blamed the “24-hour news cycle” and social media before announcing the no bill returned by the grand jury.
McCulloch said that the grand jury, made up of nine whites and three Blacks, was a representative cross-section of the demographics of St. Louis County and that they were “the only people who heard every witness … and every piece of evidence.” St. Louis County as a whole has a population that is 24 percent Black.
