MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 This week of flubbed justice, high-school whoremongers, and extended national protest kicks off in Missouri, where this afternoon the St. Louis County prosecutor’s office revealed that the findings of the Ferguson grand jury tasked with deliberating murder charges against police officer Darren Wilson for his fatal shooting of the unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown would be announced tonight at 9 p.m. EST—a ridiculous proposition that ensured the fraught announcement would be made after nightfall in Ferguson, with residents given all day to stoke their passions before hearing the nighttime jury findings. Following this stupid decision were many others, foremost of which was the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown, and to deny this conflicting-story-ridden case a proper trial. The spokesmodel for most of today’s stupid decisions: St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch, who announced the grand jury decision at an instantly infamous televised press conference that found McCulloch casting blame for Ferguson’s troubles on social media and “the 24-hour news cycle”—rather than trigger-happy cops in a long-established swamp of racial division—while praising the jury for “giving up their lives” in the process of deciding that the police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old did nothing wrong. McCulloch’s tone-deaf corporate swagger will earn widespread derision…
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