of the patterns and practices of those police officers. we know the patterns and practices in detail what was going on in ferguson elsewhere as well. thanks very much for joining us. daryl parks, thanks as well. new details on the airliner accident in new york. a plane with more than 130 people on board sliding off a runway nearly plunging into frigid water. north korea ishailing the knife attack. we are learning about the assault and what may lie behind it.
that is not do you have confidence in the mayor? not at all. if they were leading the effort to raise revenue off the backs of poor people preying on people that could least afford to pay these fines, to go through a criminal justice system that is apparently broke, then he needs to go, too. daryl parks, the grand jury there in ferguson they didn t indict this police officer. we heard eric holder the attorney general of the united states say they reviewed it. they didn t have enough evidence to go headahead with a federal civil rights suit. why do you think this lawsuit has a chance of success? two things. the burden of proof in a civil action will be by a preponderance of the evidence not a beyond a reasonable doubt.
this self-defense theory. they believe there were plenty of witnesses who came forward who saw what they saw and they also offered a different perspective and you have to remember the prosecutors are prosecutors. they made decisions that a prosecutor would make right, and in the mindset of the prosecutor and the strategy of a prosecutor. they believe that they wouldn t be successful. well, that s their approach that s their strategy. our strategy and approach is totally different. we are listening into darryl parks, one of the attorneys representing the parents of mike brown, reacting to the department of justice decision not to bring criminal charges against former ferguson police officer darren wilson in their son s death. they said they will pursue civil rights lawsuit. at this point we re also waiting to hear from mike brown s parents. they will not take questions now that they are going to pursue this lawsuit. they are litigants and let me also transition to another story that w
we haven t decided yet if we re going to take questions regarding it. we may just allow the justice system to work its own course without getting into a lot of commentary about it. that being said i want to tell you up front that the family members, the mother and father that are present today, because their role will be changing as a result of us filing a lawsuit, they will become litigants. we ll then have to limit any comments or remarks that they make so keep that in mind as we go along in this press conference. so given that kind of backdrop i want to turn it back over to darryl parks who is going to make further commentary. thank you. thank you very much. with that said as you and he just stated the mother and father will not be taking questions, but we are now entering a different phase of this action. without question the department of justice made their findings known yesterday. probably the only encouraging part of it yesterday was the things that they have found
michael brown would not be in vain. it s not uncommon where there have not been if you will criminal charges brought, that there s a civil lawsuit and it s not uncommon that there are also disciplinary actions against the officer which certainly can t take place here because the officer has left the force. but this is a different kind of proceeding with a different, if you will legal standard and gives the lawyers, darryl parks and ben crump, an opportunity to re-air the facts in a different forum in front of a jury there in st. louis. as you know that chant hands up don t shoot that became prominent, protesters embraced it following michael brown s death, but the justice department report says prosecutors could not rely on the witness reports. they only came to the conclusion that michael brown was actually moving toward the police officer darren wilson when he was shot. what do you make of this?