FERGUSON, November 26 (Sputnik) –
The US grand jury's probe into the shooting of African-American Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, is a "charade" that never came close to a genuine investigation, Rev. Alvin Herring told Sputnik Tuesday.
"The decision was deeply disappointing, but it came as no surprise. It is another blow to the St. Louis community and communities of color across America" Herring, deputy director of a national network of activists called People Improving Communities Through Organizing, said.
"St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch took a standard process, designed to protect the public by determining whether there was probable cause in a murder case, and turned it into a charade to protect Darren Wilson from public accountability," Herring added.
Major protests erupted in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson Monday over the grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer, who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Ferguson, on August 9. In St. Louis County at least 13 people have been injured in riots, which later spread across the United States and engulfed 38 states, according to the latest updates.
