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I don't know enough about the situation in Ferguson to espouse a position on it (although that doesn't appear to have stopped you), but trying every single person who is so much as suspected of murder would grind our legal system to a halt. It would also, in federal cases, be a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment. The case in question is, I believe, a state case, but Missouri also uses a grand jury system. Whether that's a provision of the state constitution, as it is in my state, I don't know. In any event, casually dismissing one of the pillars of criminal law in the US is idiotic.

And the idea of putting on a jury trial for every single police officer who shoots a person is so incomprehensibly stupid that I am having trouble believing you actually stopped to think about that sentence for more than half a second.

This was just an embarrassing post to read, in all.