I don't care if Andrew Brown was the biggest drug mob boss on the planet, there are to be no assassinations. Every person believed to have broken the law MUST receive a fair trial.
Mafia boss John Gotti, (click here) who was nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after his sentence was read in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, hundreds of Gotti’s supporters stormed the building and overturned and smashed cars before being forced back by police reinforcements....
Remember this guy? "Teflon Don" Gotti. He ran one of the biggest and most corrupt crime syndicates in the country, if not the world. It took trying, but, eventually, we got him and imprisoned him for life. I believe it was the FBI that finally made the case about him. John Gotti died in prison.
I don't know what the police are chasing these days, but, assassination is out of the question. If there are crime bosses in a city or neighborhood that needs to be put in prison and the local authorities are unable to safely make the arrest, then it needs to be moved to a more federalized authority.
Enough of all this.
I realize there are criminals to be apprehended, but, assassination is out of the question. If Andrew Brown was a notorious criminal he should have been arrested. His success as a criminal is due to other people that are worse criminals. We need people like Andrew Brown to END THE DRUG TRAFFIC, not just move it to the next block. The testimony he could have given made him invaluable to law enforcement.
The plight of the African American community is one that the entire country needs to share. We need to find the men and women that can actually police the public without killing ANYONE. The police in the USA have too much authority to kill and their unions write those tragedies right into their contracts that make police above the law.
This has to stop. I don't know Andrew Brown and he may have been the toughest guy in the world to pin down and arrest but he DID NOT DESERVE TO BE ASSASSINATED. The police are wrong and the city needs to get on with charges against them and discharging them from their jobs. There are 20 seconds of video evidence that PROVES Andrew Brown was murdered for no reason at all.
The prosecutor does not need a judge's approval to watch the video, take testimony, and file charges. The county prosecutor needs to do his job or be replaced. It is not up to civil actions to bring a murderer to justice. That is the responsibility of the prosecutor. Civil actions normally happen AFTER the prosecutor filed charges, not before. The entire POWER DYNAMICS of these killings is wrong and prosecutors are not doing their job!
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein needs to get his county prosecutors in line to carry out the brevity of the Rule of Law.
Murders by police happen and all too frequently it is the African American community that is the target. The county prosecutors need to do their jobs. If they are receiving death threats because they are doing their jobs, then give them bodyguards. Justice has to be the bottom line and not corruption. I know AG Stein is up to this. He can make North Carolina safe for all it's citizens.
