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According to Mr Rothert who has referenced the case in the lawsuit filed on Monday, the extent to which history is repeating itself, ‘highlights the fact that we can’t take McCulloch’s word about what the grand jurors thought and what the evidence was,’ in either case.

It was broad daylight when Earl Murray drove his car into the parking lot of Jack in the Box and realized, too late, that he was the target of an undercover sting. A dozen cops awaited his arrival.
Panicking he threw his car into reverse and backed into the police SUV behind him.
Officers Robert Piekutowski and Keith Kierzkowski approached the front of the car and began firing volley after volley. They shot Murray and Beasley 21 times.
The officers maintained that they fired because Murray started driving towards them and they believed he would mow them down. They used deadly force, they claimed, because they feared for their lives.
The supervising officer at the time was Thomas Jackson, then a Lieutenant, now St Louis County Chief of Police. The Prosecutor was Bob McCulloch.
Both presented the officers’ version as fact in the face of outrage and anger from the black community.
Police Chief Jackson told reporters, ‘I am convinced that the officers were in fear of their lives and that they were in immediate danger.’
‘It was obvious to everyone,’ he stated, ‘that he {Murray} was going to go right through them…they thought, “this is it.”’
He backed his men’s then, just as he backed Darren Wilson when the Ferguson claimed that, after two punches during a car-side tussle with Brown, he feared that a third blow from the teen would kill him.
Meanwhile, Mr McCulloch made a public statement asserting that ‘every witness who has anything to say or to offer will be presented to the grand jury.
‘It’s important that the integrity of this office and public confidence in the judicial system be maintained.’

In an echo of his utterances regarding the Darren Wilson grand jury he acknowledged, ‘There is widespread concern in the whole community about this case, and no decision will be reached until every shred of evidence is presented.’
Yet, while publicly preaching impartiality, Mr McCulloch consistently referred to both Murray and Beasley as ‘suspects’ not victims, though Beasley was never accused of any wrongdoing. Later he stated that both men were ‘bums.’
In what was slammed as a concerted effort on the prosecutor’s part to denigrate the men, a list of all Murray and Beasley’s interactions with law enforcement, including those that led to no charges, was read out to the grand jury before members began their final deliberations.

Fourteen years later, Chief Jackson released CCTV footage showing Michael Brown stealing a box of cigarillos moments before Wilson gunned him down.
At 6ft 4 and weighing 292lbs the teenager was shown making full use of his bulk to intimidate the storekeeper when challenged.
Amid allegations of an attempt to smear the teenager, Officer Jackson claimed that he had released the footage on the request of the media. This was later revealed to be untrue.

In August 2000 – with the officers still not publicly named - the grand jury declined to indict either of the Jack in the Box shooters. McCulloch told the public that all witnesses agreed with the officers’ account of what happened.

But a Federal Investigation the following year showed that Murray’s car had never been taken out of reverse. Not only that, it was impossible for his car to have moved forward as his rear bumper was locked on the front bumper of the SUV into which he had reversed. Still, no charges were brought.
Thirteen years later an investigation by St Louis Post-Dispatch revealed that only three of the 13 officers called as grand jury witnesses backed up the officers’ account that the car had moved forward.

Immediately after the announcement last November that the Ferguson grand jury had found ‘no true bill’ on each of the five possible indictments in Darren Wilson’s shooting of Michael Brown, Mr McCulloch made a statement. The jurors he claimed, just as he had claimed 15 years earlier, had been brought to their decision by overwhelming evidence


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