This is the Canadian equivalent of the 'no indictment' decision of the Mike Brown murder south of the border".
"I know there's a lot of anxiety, there's a lot of fear, anticipation" about the indictment decision, Missouri State Highway Patrol captain Ron Johnson told the Associated Press.
Largely peaceful protests have also taken place nightly in major cities since a grand jury returned a no indictment decision after a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in August.
And the non-indictment decision probably feels a lot more awful, not to mention the fact that her son is dead.
In his rambling, self-justifying news conference announcing the no-indictment decision, McCulloch made clear that he believed the eyewitnesses who supported Wilson's version of events and disbelieved those who did not.
And in that sense, it is a damning indictment of decision making in America.
Had Ms. White chosen to seek Mr. Torricelli's indictment, her decision would had to have been approved by senior officials of the department.
As a local or regional story, it may be worth the space on an almost daily basis, but as a national story, I would suggest that the initial allegations, indictments (or decision not to prosecute), trial, verdict and any related editorial and Op-Ed comment would be sufficient.
But the Appellate Division dismissed the indictment, and the decision yesterday affirmed that decision.
His book is in essence an indictment of that decision.
