Protester in, I think Lincoln, Nebraska, said a few minutes ago that this is their last protest of the summer. Not sure why they are stopping; mentioned having to rest, but summer is far from over, so maybe their effort is collapsing in Nebraska, or there is something planned later that they need to prepare for.
Sheriff''s Department is now on scene at the federal building area in Portland. Looks like the park has been cleaned up; police tape is around perimeter. Nothing happening yet.
"The prosecutor for St. Louis County on Thursday said his office will not bring charges against Darren Wilson, the former Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in an incident that helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement, citing a lack of concrete evidence to charge Wilson criminally in Brown's 2014 death.
"Although this case represents one of the most significant moments in St. Louis's history, the question to this office is a simple one: Could we prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown, he committed murder or manslaughter under Missouri law? After an independent and in-depth review of the evidence, we cannot prove that he did," Wesley Bell said in a Thursday news conference, adding that his heart "breaks" for Brown's parents, who he said had asked him to revisit the case.
I also want to be clear that our investigation does not exonerate Darren Wilson. The question of whether we can prove a case at trial is different than clearing him of any and all wrongdoing," said Bell, the county's first Black prosecutor, who won his 2018 election largely based on voters' rejection of his predecessor's handling of the Brown shooting."
npr.org/2020/07/30/897475866/latest-probe-ends-in-no-charges-for-former-ferguson-officer-who-killed-michael-b
Man just forced, via intimidation, to 'take a knee' for Breonna Taylor in Portland.