In the wake of the decision not to indict Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a Harvard professor and former federal judge said we should expect more of the same. "Although many are saying that the decision may have to do with race, it is more likely that Wilson is not facing charges because courts have decimated the law that holds officers accountable for excessive force, rulings that make incidents similar to Ferguson all the more likely," Nancy Gertner writes in a Boston Globe op-ed. Gertner notes that, two months before Brown's life was ended, the Supreme Court ruled in Plumhoff v.

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