A quick, disappointing but not surprising follow up to last week's declaration of a mistrial in the excessive force case against Randall "Wes" Kerrick. Kerrick, a Charlotte Mecklenburg (NC) police officer, was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the 2013 shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell, an unarmed black man.
Today, NC Attorney General Roy Cooper announced the case will not be retried and the charges against Kerrick will be dismissed.
Cooper said evidence presented in the case, including the police dash cam video that showed Ferrell's hands were empty, and that he ran toward officers wasn't conclusive enough to expect any jury would be able to agree on a verdict.So it goes.“One juror said even if they put 12 different people in here there would be a division on what happened and a division between guilty and not guilty,” Cooper said.