PILING ON THE PROSECUTOR

Benjamin Crump, Al Sharpton and their ilk are all accusing Robert McCulloch of being in league with the police and presenting a biased case to the Ferguson grand jury, and the media is blaming him for the violence because he chose to announce the jury’s decision in the evening

Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump, rabble rouser Al Sharpton, black preachers in Houston and black community leaders all over the U.S. are calling the Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson a travesty of justice. They blame St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch for the jury’s decision, accusing him of being in league with the police.

Crump ranted and raved at a Tuesday press conference about McCulloch’s police-ties and exclaimed that Michael Brown is calling out from the grave along with thousands of other blacks that have been killed by white cops. Sharpton bellowed that right after Brown’s death he had called for the federal government to handle the case instead of the local authorities. Both Crump and Sharpton called for a complete overhaul of the grand jury system which they said was unfair to people of color.

The media blames McCulloch for the riots because he chose to announce the grand jury’s decision in the evening rather than during the daytime. Yeah right, announcing the decision during the daytime would have prevented the riots. I’m surprised the media hasn’t blamed McCulloch for global warming.

McCulloch is not responsible for the grand jury’s decision and he most certainly is not responsible for the riots that followed.

He did, however, handle the grand jury investigation differently from the way such cases are usually handled. Usually the prosecutor will present just enough evidence to show probable cause for an indictment and recommend that the accused be indicted. Instead, McCulloch presented all the evidence that had been gathered by the police and by his office, as well as some experts hired by the Brown family. Then he let the jurors make their own decision based on what had been presented to them.

Who is responsible for the violence that has broken out. It’s not McCulloch. Let’s start out by blaming those who claimed that Brown was running away from Wilson or had his hands up to surrender when he got shot. That was an outright lie resulting from a deliberate fabrication or from what some witnesses who dislike the police wanted to see. Next to blame are the rabble rousers like Sharpton and the community leaders who were quick to accuse Darren Wilson of murder and shout “no justice, no peace.” And last but not least, there is the media.

For days after the shooting, the media kept emphasizing that Wilson had shot an unarmed teenager. It kept repeating that witnesses had said Brown was running from Wilson or had raised his hands in surrender. It painted Brown as just an innocent fun loving child. It repeatedly fed off the anguish of Brown’s mother and father. In effect, the media fueled the black community’s anger.

The black community refused to acknowledge that Brown had attacked Wilson. It refused to see how a much smaller Wilson could be put in fear for his life by the ‘gentle giant.’ When the authorities revealed that Brown had manhandled a small clerk while robbing a convenience store, they accused the police of character assassination. Ditto when it was revealed that the autopsy showed Brown had marijuana in his system. And instead of waiting for the facts to come out, black community leaders constantly referred to Wilson as a murderer and demanded he be charged and tried for murdering Michael Brown.

McCulloch is getting piled on by blacks and by white intellectuals from all over the country. But it is the media and black community leaders that sanitized a big black pot smoking thug and demonized a brave police officer who are responsible for the bottle and rock throwing, for the window smashing, for the looting and for the burning of Ferguson.

What is so sad is that the businesses looted and burned were not a Walmart or a Target. They were small mom and pop stores. And if you look at the TV footage, you’ll see a lot of young white demonstrators. You can bet those were college students eager to participate in any anti-government demonstration because left-wing professors have led them to believe that ours is an evil government that favors the rich and the corporations over the common folk.

Rather than getting piled on, McCulloch deserves to be praised for not caving in to public pressure. The grand jurors deserve to be praised for overcoming the fear that their decision would lead to violence. And both McCulloch and the grand jury deserve to be praised for withstanding the demands of a lynch mob.

ADDENDUM: Michael Brown’s mother Lesley McSpadden may have called for the demonstrations to be peaceful, but when the grand jury announcement was made, her current husband, Louis Head, was seen consoling his wife in front of the Ferguson police station and then shouting “Burn this bitch down” at the crowd gathered there. And he shouted it not just once, but at least 10 times. McSpadden made no attempt to stop him from inciting the crowd.

I think it’s safe to say that when Louis Head used the term ‘bitch’, he was referring to the police station and not Michael Brown’s mother.

Oh by the way, McSpadden and Head are under investigation for assaulting and robbing some Michael Brown commemorative merchandize vendors last month. Like mother, like son.