Above photo: Organization for Black Struggle Chair Montague Simmons (center) speaks during a press conference held by the Don’t Shoot Coalition on Wednesday. Credit Joseph Leahy / St. Louis Public Radio
Darren Wilson, county prosecutor, chief of police and others subpoenaed for Black People’s Grand Jury, Jan. 3 and 4 in Ferguson.
What: Black People’s Grand Jury, Jan. 3 & 4, 10 am
Where: The Ambassador, 9800 Halls Ferry Rd., St. Louis, MO 63134
For more information call: Tiffany Taylor or Denise Justice of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, 314-643-6519
Organizers for the Black People’s Grand Jury taking place Saturday and Sunday, Jan 3 and 4, 2015, have sent a subpoena to Officer Darren Wilson who killed 18-year-old, unarmed Michael Brown on August 9, 2014.
Wilson was called to testify and undergo questioning by attorneys for the Black People’s Grand Jury hearings this coming weekend.
Also subpoenaed were: St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert P. McCullough; Colonel Jon Belmar, Chief of the St. Louis County Police Department; Governor Jay Nixon and Ferguson Mayor James Knowles.
The Black People’s Grand Jury has its own attorneys making up the prosecutorial team. The BPGJ is selecting its own grand jurors and is calling its own witnesses as it reviews the evidence in the police murder Brown.
The Black People’s Grand Jury will be a transparent process in which the community will be able to participate.
A press conference about the Black People’s Grand Jury will be held Friday, Jan. 2 at 11 am in front of the Ambassador, 9800 Halls Ferry Rd. A press conference Monday, Jan. 5 at 11 am will also be held at the same location announcing the decision of the Black People’s Grand Jury.