History Says Darren Wilson, The Cop Who Killed Michael Brown, Will Not Be Charged

History suggests officer may not be charged. "Those familiar with the history of police-involved deaths say that a convergence of both U.S. law and cultural norms put the odds against it. 'It is really hard to convict a police officer. They get a super presumption of innocence,' Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor who is now a law professor at Loyola University in Los Angeles, told TPM. She was involved in a grand jury investigation of an officer-involved death, she said, but it never went to trial. 'We don't want to believe that the people we hire to protect us could be the people who want to harm us," she said, "and so we give them a huge benefit of the doubt.'" Dylan Scott in Talking Points Memo