#No charges for ex-cop Darren Wilson in Michael Brown’s death, prosecutor says

“#No charges for ex-cop Darren Wilson in Michael Brown’s death, prosecutor says”

July 30, 2020 | 7:48pm

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St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office via AP

CLAYTON, Mo. — St. Louis County’s top prosecutor announced Thursday that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about racial injustice and the police treatment of people of color.

It was nearly six years ago that a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot Brown, a Black 18-year-old. Civil rights leaders and Brown’s mother had hoped that Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell, the county’s first Black prosecutor, would reopen the case after he took office in January 2019.

“My heart breaks” for Brown’s parents, Bell said during a news conference. “I know this is not the result they were looking for and that their pain will continue forever.”