I'd like to know what kind of people were on this grand jury, and what they had to benefit from giving the State what they wanted. I've seen the videos, and the testimony of these LEO's does NOT agree with the actual eye witnesses nor the surveillance tapes.
This is another case where State-paid murderers get away their dirty deed.
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4677/53/ TOCCOA, Ga. (ABP) -- A grand jury has cleared police officers involved in a Sept. 1 shooting that killed a Southern Baptist pastor caught in the middle of a botched drug sting.
An 18-member grand jury in Stephens County in northeast Georgia ruled that the officer who fired two shots that fatally wounded Jonathan Ayers, pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia, Ga., was justified in using lethal force because he reasonably believed he was in physical danger. Ayers was 29.
According to a 1,100-page Georgia Bureau of Investigation report made public after the Dec. 15-18 grand jury probe, undercover officers were in the process of purchasing crack cocaine from a known drug user in hopes of identifying her supplier. The woman reportedly told detectives she didn't have the amount that had been agreed upon, but she would get it later in the day.
Police said they later observed a white male in a red Honda Civic give the woman money. Spotting the vehicle parked outside a gas station and recognizing Ayers as the man they had seen earlier, officers rushed to question him, blocking him in as he started to back out of a parking space.
Officers said they were in plain clothes but wore badges around their necks and identified themselves as police. They ordered him not to put the car in reverse, but Ayers did so anyway and accelerated, making contact with an officer behind the car. He then put the car in drive and accelerated forward, nearly striking Billy Shane Harris, an agent for the Mountain Narcotics Criminal Investigation & Suppression Team.
---So, a person not a suspect in the drug sting is shot and killed because he ran scared when approached by men with guns and wearing plain clothes. I think most people would have done the same. Note in the video, the LEOs jumped out of their vehicle with guns already drawn (a Caddy Escalade isn't a recognizable LEO vehicle in any state !). IMO, these are simply murderers who have now used the system to intimidate a Grand Jury and stay in business.
