Once the news released, the protest broke out in Ferguson immediately and it evolved into violent conflicts finally, the New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston all broke out protests. The news indeed enraged a huge number of American people.
But according to the principle of judicial independence, public mood and opinion of administrative department and the big bug can never get in the way of normal judicial procedures.
The prosecutor and the jury can not violate judicial spirit under any condition. Otherwise, it will lead the country into a legal mess, which will be a mess more thorny and difficult to control.
We have to admit the outcome is not very unexpected, the rules of law are more complicated than we have imagined. According to the law of Missouri, if the policeman feels the life being threatened during the legal fight, he can use the deadly way to protect himself. And the Police Union pointed out 70 policemen dead in the law enforcement, and the United States never sent official to attend the funeral of the police who died on duty. History was always shockingly similar and repeated over and over, the judicial dilemma lurches from crisis to crisis.
The Baltimore riot is a case in point. The story followed that a young black man Gray was arrested on the patrol wagon by policemen. Gray was in handcuffs but not been belted up according to rules which leads to severe injury, at the same time the police involved did not take necessary measures to help Gray after he asked for medical aids. And Gray slipped into unconsciousness and died after a week.
The prosecutor Mosby stated," The legal medical expert and investigation evidence revealed that Gray’s case is an intentional murder. Additionally, Gray brought with him a fruit knife rather than so called forbidden object, so the arrest is not legal. After endless independent and comprehensive investigation, the conclusion is in accordance with the identification result from the legal medical expert. So we think we have sufficient reason to institute criminal litigation towards policemen involved in."
The American president also responded in the first time that respected the authority of judicial procedures. Whether the outcome of this case will be similar to the Brown’s is not yet sure, but we do hope the truth can emerge and justice can be upheld.
What we now are waiting is a just judgment which can make all the American society peaceful and make all the protest and riot stop and avoid more innocent life lose for it.
It is truly a tough choice for the jury. They have to observe the sacred and inviolable judicial spirits, meanwhile, they are demanded too much by the supporter of virtue ethics. The interests of different groups is not so easy to satisfy, what the jury should do is to reveal the truth and uphold just without any reservation.
Bibliography Merritt, Maria. "Virtue Ethics and Situationist Personality Psychology." Ethical Theory & Moral Practice 3.4(2017):365-383. Lindsey Bever. “Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson is nowhere to be found”. 2017.
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