Giuliani: Prosecutors 'Could Never Have Won' Wilson Case

The St. Louis County grand jury's refusal to return an indictment on Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson was the right decision, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Tuesday.

"I believe it was a correct verdict," Giuliani told CNN's "New Day." "In fact, I think it was the only verdict the grand jury could reach," he said.

The case against Wilson, who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown this past summer, failed two tests that come under consideration when a grand jury is considering an indictment, said Giuliani, who is also a former U.S. attorney. A grand jury must determine whether there is probable cause for an incident and if they believe a prosecutor could convict the suspect.

Giuliani said he "doesn't think there's any question they didn't have probable cause," and further, the county's prosecutors could never have won a criminal case against Wilson.

"They would've been destroyed at trial by a halfway competent defense lawyer because of all the inconsistencies," he said of the evidence. "If you can't prove probable cause, how are you going to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt when the witnesses are contradicting themselves?"

Over the weekend, Giuliani says that the media focusing on the Ferguson, Missouri grand jury should spend more attention on why white police officers are in black neighborhoods to start with.

"I find it very disappointing that you're not discussing the fact that 93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks," Giuliani said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

The case of white police officers killing blacks are the exception rather that the rule, he said.

"We are talking about the significant exception," Giuliani said.

Part of the issue in the Ferguson decision is that several witnesses gave varying versions of the struggle between Brown and Wilson, said St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCullough Monday, while announcing the grand jury's decision.

On Tuesday, Giuliani said police officers should have responded even more forcefully to the many protests in Ferguson that turned violent Monday night, saying he would have doubled or even tripled the police presence.

"You have every right to protest, you have every right to scream, you have every right to yell. The first time you throw something at a police officer, you get handcuffed arrested and taken away," Giuliani said.

Giuliani told Fox Business Network Tuesday that he praises the grand jury's decision, but criticized President Barack Obama and Missouri law enforcement officials.

“[Obama is] absolutely right that people should be peaceful; absolutely right that people have a right to peaceful protest,” Giuliani said.

However, Giuliani said that Obama should have further discussed the problem of black-on-black crime and the need to teach communities about dealing with police officers.

He also accused witnesses of "perjuring themselves" by testifying that Brown had been shot in the back.

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