THE NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION RESPONDS TO THE GRAND JURY’S DECISION NOT TO INDICT POLICE OFFICER DARREN WILSON IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF MICHAEL BROWN
WASHINGTON, DC – The National Bar Association is questioning how the Grand Jury, considering the evidence before them, could reach the conclusion that Darren Wilson should not be indicted and tried for the shooting death of Michael Brown. National Bar Association President Pamela J. Meanes expresses her sincere disappointment with the outcome of the Grand Jury’s decision but has made it abundantly clear that the National Bar Association stands firm and will be calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue federal charges against officer Darren Wilson. “We will not rest until Michael Brown and his family has justice” states Pamela Meanes, President of the National Bar Association.
President Meanes is requesting that the citizens of Ferguson, Missouri not allow this decision to cause an unnecessary uproar in the community that could lead to arrests, injuries or even deaths of innocent people. “I am asking for everyone to remain as calm as possible and to join in solidarity as we continue to support the family of Michael Brown and put our legal plan into full effect” says President Meanes “I feel the magnitude of the grand jury’s ruling as Ferguson, Missouri is only minutes from where I reside”, adds President Meanes.
Over the last couple of months, the National Bar Association has hosted Town Hall meetings informing attendees of their Fourth Amendment (Search & Seizure) constitutional rights, whether it is legal to record police activity, and how citizens should behave/respond if and when they interface with police officers. “The death of Michael Brown was the last straw and the catalyst for addressing issues of inequality and racial bias in policing, the justice system, and violence against members of minority communities,” states Pamela Meanes.
The family of Michael Brown requested that District Attorney McCullough step aside and allow a special prosecutor be assigned to the investigation to give the community confidence that the grand jury would conduct a complete and thorough investigation into the tragic shooting death of 18 year old Michael Brown. The grand jury’s decision confirms the fear that many expressed months ago — that a fair and impartial investigation would not happen.
“The National Bar Association is adamant about our desire for transformative justice. While we are disappointed with the grand jury’s ruling, we are promoting peace on every street corner around the world. The only way to foster systemic change is to organize, educate, and mobilize. We are imploring everyone to fight against the injustice in Ferguson, Missouri and throughout the United States by banding together and working within the confines of the law,” states President Meanes.
For complaints related to Ferguson, please contact the FBI 24 Hour Hotline at 314-589-2500.
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The National Bar Association was founded in 1925 and is the nation’s oldest and largest national network of predominantly African-American attorneys and judges. It represents the interests of approximately 60,000 lawyers, judges, law professors and law students.The NBA is organized around 23 substantive law sections, 9 divisions, 12 regions and 80 affiliate chapters throughout the United States and around the world. For more information, visit: www.nationalbar.org
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Another fine institution being destroyed from within by progressivism.
The National Bar Association:
1) Issues a call for calm and thoughtfulness to pursue a legal remedy.
2) Honestly explains Constitutional rights to citizens.
3) Spells out (rallies against) blatant judicial activism by DA McCollough.
4) Urges working within the law for change.
Readers will definitely have to guess which institution you identify is being destroyed here, and then how, if these four points equate ONLY to progressive thought, how this amounts to destroying or posing a threat to, “individual freedom,” the perpetual catch-all, battle-cry which predominantly comes from the right-wingers. These four concepts are all things the right adamantly claims they stand for and promote, iirc. That, to me, puts this press release squarely in a common sense political middle ground that serves a vast majority of US citizens very well.
Unfortunately, some readers might claim your comment appears to be made only to raise thoughtless ire and incite an angry response with your completely unexplained, yet perfectly clear condemnation and denigration of progressivism, likely issued only to derail a thread topic and to deliberately harass readers. Some readers might claim that.
NQ, of course!!!
But one point was missed by the National Bar Association; they should have called for a review by Missouri’s State Bar Association of McCulloch for bias, extreme delay, and other such professional misconduct http://www.mobar.org/forthepublic/ethics/
McCullough’s perversion of the Grand Jury process now places a “McCullough” below the status of an “Ambulance Chaser.”
Thanks D12,
Funny thing about McCullough is that he is the highest paid elected official in St Louis County and a visit to the county website shows his personal bio, no others, has been hacked or taken down (anonymous? ha!). I did a quick check to for professional affiliations, was former or maybe current president of National Defense Attorney Assoc. (conflicting stories).
It looks as though McCulloch is also going into “hiding” just as it was announced in the last 24 hours that Wilson is negotiating his termination with the Ferguson Police Department and going into hiding.
Denis, how many votes on the 12 member Grand Jury did it take to clear Officer Wilson?
Also, do you now consider Justice Scalia a “progressive?”
Thanks in advance.
9, no. Your welcome.
Oops. For whatever reason, my brain registered American Bar Association. I was amazed that the left leaning ABA would issue such a statement about “injustice” at Ferguson. There simply was no “injustice” in Ferguson, unless, like I do, you count the looting, arson and general mayhem perpetrated against innocent citizens and business owners of the area. That an organization based on race, the NBA, would reach a racially biased conclusion is of no surprise to me. Their opinion should be marginalized like the views of the Westborough Church but instead they are elevated and taken seriously here at BB. Again, no surprise.
While the 7:45 am writer and his fellow racists and bigots might agree that a predominantly African-American legal organization has NO legitimacy or qualifications to make a judgement on the Micheal Brown murder Grand Jury process and outcome, as discussed in the OP press release, notice his cowardly avoidance of actually responding directly in any fashion to my pointing out (@ 4:32 am) that the oft repeated demands of the right-wing are exactly those being made by the African-American group he just said are worthless.
Notice also his changing the subject to the unfortunate aftermath in Ferguson since the grand jury decision was released, instead of discussing the points about the GJ decision in the OP press release. That is of course, except for his racist blanket condemnation of the NBA, offering not reason for that condemnation of the NBA other than it is an African-American group. A plain and clear comment by a racist and a bigot.
Incorrectly presuming and defining incidents as, “looting, arson and general mayhem,” or claiming it to be “injustice,” is putting the cart before the horse. I have not found the stories yet where either the KKK, fires caused by the police-fired tear gas canisters, government agent provocateurs or anybody else has been definitely determined, much less charges filed or trials scheduled for any of that. I imagine ongoing investigations will attempt to bring to justice any perpetrators, or, at least to explain the actual causes behind the obvious destruction.
Investigations will also hopefully look into the suspicious death of Deandre Joshua, black male age 20, bullet through his head and his body attempted to be burned in the front seat of his vehicle on Tuesday night. Where were the protect and serve police for Deandre, or for protecting black owned businesses on Monday?
Another fine institution being destroyed from within by progressivism.
The National Bar Association:
1) Issues a call for calm and thoughtfulness to pursue a legal remedy.
2) Honestly explains Constitutional rights to citizens.
3) Spells out (rallies against) blatant judicial activism by DA McCollough.
4) Urges working within the law for change.
Readers will definitely have to guess which institution you identify is being destroyed here, and then how, if these four points equate ONLY to progressive thought, how this amounts to destroying or posing a threat to, “individual freedom,” the perpetual catch-all, battle-cry which predominantly comes from the right-wingers. These four concepts are all things the right adamantly claims they stand for and promote, iirc. That, to me, puts this press release squarely in a common sense political middle ground that serves a vast majority of US citizens very well.
Unfortunately, some readers might claim your comment appears to be made only to raise thoughtless ire and incite an angry response with your completely unexplained, yet perfectly clear condemnation and denigration of progressivism, likely issued only to derail a thread topic and to deliberately harass readers. Some readers might claim that.
NQ, of course!!!
But one point was missed by the National Bar Association; they should have called for a review by Missouri’s State Bar Association of McCulloch for bias, extreme delay, and other such professional misconduct http://www.mobar.org/forthepublic/ethics/
McCullough’s perversion of the Grand Jury process now places a “McCullough” below the status of an “Ambulance Chaser.”
Thanks D12,
Funny thing about McCullough is that he is the highest paid elected official in St Louis County and a visit to the county website shows his personal bio, no others, has been hacked or taken down (anonymous? ha!). I did a quick check to for professional affiliations, was former or maybe current president of National Defense Attorney Assoc. (conflicting stories).
Official title, Prosecuting Attorney: http://www.stlouisco.com/YourGovernment/CountyDepartments
NQ, I sent a “Dear Charlie” message asking the St. Louis County Exec what happened to the County Prosecutor’s website bio. http://www.stlouisco.com/YourGovernment/CountyExecutive
It looks as though McCulloch is also going into “hiding” just as it was announced in the last 24 hours that Wilson is negotiating his termination with the Ferguson Police Department and going into hiding.
Denis, how many votes on the 12 member Grand Jury did it take to clear Officer Wilson?
Also, do you now consider Justice Scalia a “progressive?”
Thanks in advance.
9, no. Your welcome.
Oops. For whatever reason, my brain registered American Bar Association. I was amazed that the left leaning ABA would issue such a statement about “injustice” at Ferguson. There simply was no “injustice” in Ferguson, unless, like I do, you count the looting, arson and general mayhem perpetrated against innocent citizens and business owners of the area. That an organization based on race, the NBA, would reach a racially biased conclusion is of no surprise to me. Their opinion should be marginalized like the views of the Westborough Church but instead they are elevated and taken seriously here at BB. Again, no surprise.
While the 7:45 am writer and his fellow racists and bigots might agree that a predominantly African-American legal organization has NO legitimacy or qualifications to make a judgement on the Micheal Brown murder Grand Jury process and outcome, as discussed in the OP press release, notice his cowardly avoidance of actually responding directly in any fashion to my pointing out (@ 4:32 am) that the oft repeated demands of the right-wing are exactly those being made by the African-American group he just said are worthless.
Notice also his changing the subject to the unfortunate aftermath in Ferguson since the grand jury decision was released, instead of discussing the points about the GJ decision in the OP press release. That is of course, except for his racist blanket condemnation of the NBA, offering not reason for that condemnation of the NBA other than it is an African-American group. A plain and clear comment by a racist and a bigot.
Incorrectly presuming and defining incidents as, “looting, arson and general mayhem,” or claiming it to be “injustice,” is putting the cart before the horse. I have not found the stories yet where either the KKK, fires caused by the police-fired tear gas canisters, government agent provocateurs or anybody else has been definitely determined, much less charges filed or trials scheduled for any of that. I imagine ongoing investigations will attempt to bring to justice any perpetrators, or, at least to explain the actual causes behind the obvious destruction.
Investigations will also hopefully look into the suspicious death of Deandre Joshua, black male age 20, bullet through his head and his body attempted to be burned in the front seat of his vehicle on Tuesday night. Where were the protect and serve police for Deandre, or for protecting black owned businesses on Monday?