The Department is ending its investigation into the shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown and is set to clear former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson of any civil rights charges.
The New York Times reported: The DOJ has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against Darren Wilson.
The DoJ may not even release a report detailing its findings, but officials said Attorney General Eric Holder has plans to have it completed before he leaves office in the next couple of months.
A grand jury failed to indict Wilson, who is white, in November in the shooting death of 18-year-old Brown.
The shooting and grand jury decision sparked days of demonstrations in Ferguson, some of which resulted in violent clashes with police.
http://www.breaking911.com/...
Completely expected, nonetheless horrible.
Getting away with murder... like only a police officer can do.
The only federal indictment I'm aware of in a situation even somewhat similar to this was the Rodney King federal indictment and trial.
After the acquittals and the riots, the United States Department of Justice sought indictments for violations of King's civil rights. "On May 7, federal prosecutors began presenting evidence to a Los Angeles [federal] grand jury. On August 4, the grand jury returned indictments against the three officers for '...willfully and intentionally using unreasonable force...' and against Sergeant Koon for '...willfully permitting and failing to take action to stop the unlawful assault...' on King."
Based on these indictments a trial of the four officers in the United States District Court for the Central District of California began on February 25, 1993.[34] The federal trial focused more on the incident. On March 9 of the 1993 trial, King took the witness stand and described to the jury the events as he remembered them.[35] The jury found Officer Laurence Powell and Sergeant Stacey Koon guilty, and they were subsequently sentenced to 32 months in prison, while Timothy Wind and Theodore Briseno were acquitted of all charges.