Following Failures to Indict Police Officers Wilson and Pantaleo, Many Ask “Is Our Grand Jury System Broken?”

December 5, 2014  |  CRIMINAL, ETHICS, IN THE NEWS  |  Share
Following Failures to Indict Police Officers Wilson and Pantaleo, Many Ask “Is Our Grand Jury System Broken?”

The recent failure of grand juries in St. Louis County, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, to indict police officers accused of killing suspects has people across the country questioning whether the grand jury system needs to be changed. In both of these cases, race was an issue, as the officers were white, and the men who died were black. Do police receive special treatment from prosecutors, and what role does race play? I address these issues with WGRZ’s Claudia Ewing; click on the video above.


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