African-American community leaders in St. Louis say they will convene a black grand jury on January 3rd and 4th to look at the evidence in the Michael Brown shooting.<\/p>\n
The grand jury members will go over the evidence presented to the St. Louis County Grand Jury. <\/p>\n
They say they will call Darren Wilson, County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles and Governor Jay Nixon to testify.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat it does is educates and informs our people that two bodies came together, examined the same set of evidence, and were able to come to different conclusions. Therefore, the only thing standing between us and our ability to carry out the will of the people is to change this relationship that exists between us and the armed state apparatus that controls us.\u201d said Omali Yeshitela of the African People\u2019s Socialist Party.<\/p>\n
Regardless of the decision made by this grand jury, it will have no legal bearing on the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
African-American community leaders in St. Louis say they will convene a black grand jury on January 3rd and 4th to look at the evidence in the Michael Brown shooting. The grand jury members will go over the evidence presented to the St. Louis County Grand Jury. They say they will call Darren Wilson, County Prosecutor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":21736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n