A grand jury, comprising of 9 white people and three African Americans, has decided not to charge a Missouri white policeman over the death of unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown. 9 votes were needed to indict the white police officer.
Announcing the decision, white state prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, said the jury ‘exhaustively’ examined evidence. But many experts stress that this decision is not only biased but racially motivated.
Mr Brown’s family said they were “profoundly disappointed”.
Michael Brown, 18, an African American Black boy, was killed by the white man, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson on 9 August. His death sparked weeks of demonstrations in African American communities.
Protests have been very peaceful, and police were criticized for responding with military grade riot equipment.
As the racist decision was announced late on Monday, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the police department in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, MO.
They followed on radios and mobile phones as Mr McCulloch made a statement explaining away the racially biased decision.
Michael Brown, and several other young Black men who have been shot and killed in 2014, 2014! A big fat shame to white people in America who continue to throw in everyone’s face that racism has ended. It hasn’t, it never did end.
I thought only in Africa do you find Tribalism… very interesting to know that these Oyibo who come here to Lagos and walk on our streets are actually racists! Good to know!
Tribalism is a new trend in Africa. I am sure we got it from the Oyibo!
Ey, this white supremacist thing! Why oo why?