Grand juries do what prosecutors want them to. Typically, they vote to indict. As the saying goes, they would indict a ham sandwich.
But they don’t indict cops—because prosecutors generally don’t want them to. Prosecutors and cops work together; they’re allies. That’s why cops who murder unarmed blacks tend to get away with it.
I was on a grand jury once. We voted to indict a foreign woman, applying for a job, who left her kid alone in her car while she applied for the job. I’m told that this is common in other countries.
I was thinking of saying to other members of the jury, this is Christmas time; shouldn’t we be compassionate? But I was too timid.
To this day I remain ashamed of myself. And contemptuous of grand juries.
But they don’t indict cops—because prosecutors generally don’t want them to. Prosecutors and cops work together; they’re allies. That’s why cops who murder unarmed blacks tend to get away with it.
I was on a grand jury once. We voted to indict a foreign woman, applying for a job, who left her kid alone in her car while she applied for the job. I’m told that this is common in other countries.
I was thinking of saying to other members of the jury, this is Christmas time; shouldn’t we be compassionate? But I was too timid.
To this day I remain ashamed of myself. And contemptuous of grand juries.
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