O'Malley would not have indicted anyone in the Tamir Rice case, either.

When asked point-blank, he refuses to answer.

... is a cause for hope.

Accountability is a good thing.

Thanks for the thread, BumRushDaShow.

Then remove their ability to prosecute these cases and put them into the hands of an independent prosecutor. That's the only way we will be able to clean out the vile ideology from our police departments.

for prosecutors to reflect upon their decisions on how to handle these bad cops.

They shot down a child as if he were a mad dog. And left him bleeding slowly to death, doing NOTHING to help him. And berated, handcuffed, and put his only slightly older sister in the squad car to prevent her from helping him. Because his skin was darker than theirs. Oh, and his hair was crinklier.

Thanks for this.

This business of voting against best interests is baffling. I guess the Wizard of Oz fools many.

We need prosecutors and judges who carry out the public will.

Take a poll. If the public decides in the heat of the moment or of their passions that the guy's guilty, then the jury should just implement that. It is a democracy, after all, and we must remember that the rights at stake are the community's and justice is what the deceased family is owed.

We can call the method of execution the "poll ax."

I didn't think it had, but you never know with some of the replies these days.

A jury never needs to make split second decisions and even the most unpopular defendants still get a presumption of innocence. The government still has to prove the case, not just take a poll.

The grand jury's function is not to decide guilt or innocence.

That is the job of a trial jury.

If there were a presumption of innocence at the charging stage, no one would ever be charged with a crime.

The outrage which so outrages you and 24601, in the following comment, is directed at the failure to charge, not a failure to convict. The latter could never happen because of the former.

Other than that, you've made a devastating point.

Where the will of the people determines who goes to jail...

What is wrong with you?

He is not fit to hold public office.

Happier still McGinty's out.

This is inspiring. Anita Alvarez in Chicago got shown the door too.
Happy Happy day!!!

Certainly he'll make a statement saying he would still not charge the officers, even though it cost him his office.

Fine....and the public still would have voted your ass out. Perhaps some of his cop buddies can find him a job.

Damn!

Major step forward. If prosecutors don't want to prosecute cops, then they should be removed from office. They're not doing their duty.