Vox Sentences: Ferguson, the day after

1. We have a decision

Win McNamee/Getty Images

: 4 year old Marley Hendrix Totten joins a group of protesters as they gather outside the headquarters of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department as part of a planned '28 Hours for Mike Brown' protest November 25, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

• Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who killed Michael Brown on August 9, will not face any criminal charges from St. Louis County.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• Protests in Ferguson, some violent, immediately broke out after the decision was announced.

  [Vox / Jenée Desmond-Harris]

• Keep in mind that a federal investigation is still ongoing and could result in charges against Wilson.

  [CNN / Jeremy Diamond]

• The announcement also came with the release of all evidence presented to the grand jury. Here's what we learned.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• Darren Wilson's version of events is literally unbelievable. It's just utterly bizarre.

  [Vox / Ezra Klein]

• And it was also littered with awful racial stereotypes.

  [Vox / Lauren Williams]

• "US attorneys prosecuted 162,000 federal cases in 2010 … Grand juries declined to return an indictment in 11 of them."

  [FiveThirtyEight / Ben Casselman]

• If you have trouble conceptualizing just how rare that is, here's a chart that should help.

  [Washington Post / Philip Bump]

• 12 percent of law enforcement officers accused of misconduct end up incarcerated; 48 percent of all felony defendants do.

  [FiveThirtyEight / Reuben Fischer-Baum]

• A lucid explanation of the many systemic factors that make it difficult to hold police responsible for wrongdoing.

  [The Nation / Chase Madar]

• Here's Michael Brown's family's reaction to the verdict.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

• Rapper Killer Mike was in St. Louis when the decision was announced and gave a rather moving speech in response.

  [Slate / Dee Lockett]

• Clarissa Rile Hayward proposes large-scale institutional reform to address the root causes of Brown's shooting and Wilson's non-prosecution.

  [Washington Post / Clarissa Rile Hayward]

• Another possible reform: abolish grand juries and force prosecutors to own their decisions.

  [NYT / Sol Wachtler]

2. Bombing in Nigeria

• Two female suicide bombers killed dozens of people in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

  [Reuters / Lanre Ola]

• Reuters says at least 44 were killed, while the Wall Street Journal says at least 50.

  [WSJ / Drew Hinshaw and Gbenga Akingbule]

• Boko Haram, the group behind the schoolgirl kidnappings earlier this year, is the prime suspect in the attacks.

  [NYT / Hamza Idris and Rick Gladstone]

• Another Boko Haram attack earlier this month had a similar death toll.

  [NYT / Adam Nossiter]

3. Tax showdown

Nice deal you got there Harry Reid. Shame if someone should veto it. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

• Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has worked out a deal with congressional Republicans to make certain corporate tax breaks permanent.

  [NYT / Jonathan Weisman]

• But President Obama has threatened to veto because the deal doesn't make expansions of tax credits for low-income people permanent.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• Ostensibly, many congressional Republicans support those credits, yet they clearly didn't make them a priority in this negotiation.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

4. Misc.

• Argentina doesn't quite have open borders — but it's very, very close.

  [Open Borders / John Lee]

• A great rundown of possible reasons why crime has declined so much since the early 1990s.

  [Marshall Project / Dana Goldstein]

• Workers' share of income (compared to capital's) is falling and computers are a big reason why.

  [Project Syndicate / Dalia Marin]

• How the Supreme Court's conservatives paved the way for a Satanist holiday display in the Florida Capitol building.

  [Slate / Mark Joseph Stern]

• It took 12 trucks to haul away all the bribe money a corrupt Chinese general received.

  [Slate / Jordan Weissmann]

• Two universities have received grenade launchers from the Defense Department.

  [Chris Blattman]

5. Verbatim

• "In 1960, there were approximately 500 professional tattoo artists operating in the United States. By 1995, that number had risen to over 10,000."

  [The Atlantic / Chris Weller]

• "If you walk into a bar, there will almost always be a cheaper beer [than Bud], a less caloric beer, and plenty of tastier beers on tap."

  [Slate / Jordan Weissmann]

• "One of their chief pursuers is a hitman called The Will, who is always accompanied by his Lying Cat."

  [The Atlantic / David Sims]

Will you join us?

Our biggest supporters are our readers — and we’re so grateful to everyone who has made a contribution during our September campaign. We’re less than 1,000 contributions away from reaching our goal for the month, which in turn will allow us to say yes more often when our incredible journalists come to us with questions they want to answer and projects they want to pursue. Will you make a contribution before the month ends and support our policy coverage through 2024 and beyond?

One-Time Monthly Annual

$5/month

$10/month

$25/month

$50/month

Other

$

Yes, I'll give $5/month

Yes, I'll give $5/month

We accept credit card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. You can also contribute via