Jesse Jackson: Killings have become common place

Greenville reports:

The last time he was in Ferguson, Missouri, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he got the sense that the man who shot Michael Brown would walk free.

Jackson was in Greenville on Monday when a grand jury reached its decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in the shooting death of Brown, an unarmed black teenager.

In the hours before the announcement was made, Jackson drew similarities between Brown, who was 18, and other black men who were victims of violence. The civil rights activist mentioned Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, and more recently, the two black men in New York killed by police.

Too often, Jackson said the officer who serves and protects "is the killer and executioner."

"The killing is common place, but the justice is not," he said.

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