After much awaiting, finally the Ferguson grand jury results came to light last Monday night, revealing that Darren Wilson, the man who shot and killed Michael Brown, will not be going to trial for his actions.
In one of the most controversial decisions that has come out of a court room in the past few years, the Ferguson grand jury results regarding Darren Wilson say that there is not enough evidence to sustain that his case goes to trial, according to USA Today.
People have closely followed the case across the country and the entire world, after the details were revealed: Michael Brown, the boy who was killed by the policeman, was an unarmed 18 year-old black kid, who was shot a total of six times in a move that has been widely seen as racial profiling, and the foundation for ongoing riots in the Missouri city just outside of St. Louis.
The details of the case caused uproar in the city, with ongoing public demonstrations since last summer. Things had been appeased in the wait for the Ferguson grand jury results, but the final say of the courts only angered citizens even further.
It was expected that the Ferguson grand jury results would give green light to further investigations regarding what many regard as a crime of police brutality, but the court refused to indict the policeman, causing a response of deep unrest in the city.
According to WPTV, the late night of Monday and early hours of Tuesday saw the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson at deep unrest: looted stores (the streets covered with shattered glass due to this), the smell of tear gas flooding the air ... and even a no-fly zone over the city in the midst of the conflict.
The already-tense scenario of this Missouri city only became worse once the Ferguson grand jury results were made public.
The Washington Post explained the process behind the Ferguson grand jury results in a recent article, published before the decision was announced late Monday night. There were three months of deliberation regarding the final decision, with a jury composed of 12 citizens, where nine of them had to vote in favor of an indictment for it to pass forward.
It was uncertain what were the specific charges against policeman Darren Wilson, since the prosecutor's office failed to tell the press all about them - and they didn't suggest the charges to the jurors either, so there was a variety of charges to consider, such as unlawful discharge of a firearm and first-degree murder.
The Ferguson grand jury results that were released on Monday night were a decision based on the jurors' thoughts on whether or not a crime had been committed against young Michael Brown.
Shockingly enough to outsiders, the decision leaned towards the idea that there had been no wrongful doing in the death of Brown, and that Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the crime.
As was expected if the Ferguson grand jury results were to not prosecute Wilson, riots emerged all over the city afterwards, turning the St. Louis suburb into something of a warzone, even comparable to Iraq.
Many news outlets such as the United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian have noted that the truly worrying thing about the new Ferguson grand jury results is the fact that it puts the American legal system on the spot, particularly when it comes to the way law enforcement is built around race in the United States.
The fact that a white policeman who brutally killed an unarmed black kid by shooting him six times will not be indicted for his crime speaks volumes of the way things are managed in that aspect in the country.
