Last week, the trial of Officer Randall Kerrick involving the shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell ended.
A mistrial was declared and NC Attorney General Roy Cooper announced there would be no re-trial.
That decision set off Moral Monday’s Reverend Barber.
.@NCAGO / #NCGOV candidate Cooper (D) being pushed by #MoralMonday‘s Rev. Barber (NC NAACP) to retry Kerrick: http://t.co/TBmTD7isgg #NCPOL
— Sister Toldjah (@sistertoldjah) September 2, 2015
From the article embedded in SisterToldjah’s tweet:
“The loss of human life and the heartbreak of a family require a more just and wise response from our elected leaders,” Barber said in a statement released late Monday. “To say that a hung jury has spoken is simply wrong and Attorney General ought to know and do better.”
In announcing it’s decision not to retry Kerrick, who shot Ferrell 10 times during a late-night encounter, Coopers office said state prosecutors did not believe they could win a conviction.
Barber called that reasoning “callous,” “arrogant,” and “deeply disappointing.”
Barber is joined by Ferrell’s mother, stating ‘Cooper does not care about my son’.
WBTV reported:
Roy Cooper is running for Governor of North Carolina.
Cooper’s campaign site touts the slogan, “Moving North Carolina Forward. Keeping North Carolina Safe”.
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