Dean Obeidallah, a columnist for The Daily Beast, political comedian, and former lawyer, says he's not surprised that a grand jury did not charge police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
"Police officers who shoot people in the line of duty are very rarely indicted, let alone convicted of anything," Obeidallah told Rick Ungar, guest host of "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
Newsmax TV, on Wednesday.
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"It should be a case-by-case basis. There are good shootings and bad shootings. There are police officers who do things that we would actually overwhelmingly approve of. They are keeping us safe, they are shooting someone who's a threat.
"There's other times where you really have questions about what happened and was it right or not. That's where you have a grand jury involved or have the adversarial proceeding in an actual trial to make that determination."
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