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Speaker 1: Six years ago, the shooting of Michael Brown led to

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Speaker 1: violent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. St. Louis grand jury weighed

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Speaker 1: all the evidence. They found the police officer in the case,

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Speaker 1: Darren Wilson, should not face charges because his actions were justified.

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Speaker 1: Back then, the prosecutor, Bob McCullough came under heavy criticism

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Speaker 1: for presenting the case to a grand jury instead of

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Speaker 1: giving into the loud demands to just charge Wilson with murder.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand eighteen, McCullough was defeated by Wesley Bell,

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Speaker 1: who became the first African American to head the St.

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Speaker 1: Louis Prosecutor's office. Bell and his new team of prosecutors

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Speaker 1: reopened the Michael Brown case. They spent five months re

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Speaker 1: examining everything, the forensic evidence, the witness statements, entire case.

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Speaker 1: Last Thursday, Prosecutor Bell delivered a somber message. He said

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Speaker 1: that his heart broke for the Brown family, but he

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Speaker 1: would not be charging Darren Wilson. The investigation could not

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Speaker 1: prove that the officer committed murder or manslaughter. We do

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Speaker 1: just exactly what the grand jury had found six years earlier.

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Speaker 1: After being identified as a participant in a robbery. Michael

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Speaker 1: Brown tried to take the officer's weapon. It cost him

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Speaker 1: his life. Race was never the issue in this case,

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Speaker 1: never should have become the issue where hands up, don't

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Speaker 1: shoot never happened. This was about right and wrong and

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Speaker 1: Michael Brown, sadly was on the wrong side of it.