Analyzing Ferguson Grand Jury Testimony and Profiling Bill Cosby’s Alleged Rapist Behavior

Defense attorney Mike Cavalluzzi and former FBI profiler Jim Clemente dig deep into the Ferguson grand jury testimony after the panel decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Clemente said that after personally going through some of the evidence testimony, he is puzzled by some of the statements given to the grand jury by officer Wilson about the events of the shooting.

“If he was fleeing, and he made the shots, that is absolutely not legal,” he said. There are just no circumstances under which a police officer should be shooting someone who is unarmed, who is just running away from him.”

But Wilson did say that Michael Brown at one point stopped, and then allegedly started charging towards him, and later also made the statement that as Brown was running, his right hand went under his shirt and his waistband.

“If Michael Brown was charging at him – we know he didn’t have a gun in his waistband, we know that for a fact – so why would Michael Brown reach into his waistband? That is the only thing that seems to stand out at me as totally disingenuous on the part of officer Wilson. And I believe that is the standard statement that is used to say my life was in danger, when somebody doesn’t really have that proof,” Clemente said.

Cavalluzzi gives his thoughts on the process of the grand jury, which he believes was not appropriate in this case, since so much evidence and testimony is not taken into account as it would be during a full trial. “The only way to adequately and accurately determine the voracity of what’s being said, is to have a full trial, in which so much more is available at an actual trial,” he said.

They also address an ongoing federal investigation of the case - relating to whether the shooting death represented a civil rights violation - and both panel members believe this process should be completely separate from any findings from state and local proceedings.

“I’m not even making a comment on whether or not Darren Wilson should be prosecuted for this. But I absolutely, 100 percent believe that Robert McCulloch was not the right person to be in charge of this investigation and prosecution,” Cavalluzzi said.

The most crucial part of the case that needs to be examined is the testimony related to whether Brown was being fired upon while running away from the officer, according to Clemente. “We know that six shots missed Michael Brown. Were those shots that were fired by the police officer when he was running away? That’s a question we should be answering through a trial, we should not be just throwing this to a grand jury.”

Addressing the increasing allegations of rape by multiple women against beloved comedian Bill Cosby, Clemente outlined some of the traits possessed by rapists profiled by police that might match Cosby’s alleged behavior.

“If these allegations are true, Bill Cosby would most likely fit into a power-assertive serial rapist. That would be somebody who basically uses women – he expresses dominance through rape. He basically overcomes the victims to keep them in line. That’s his motivation behind the actual rapes,” he said.

“There’s also the Prentky model, which he would probably fit into this sort of exploitive rapist type, which also has a lot of similarities. They assert their masculinity, they feel sort of a threatened, hyper-masculine self-image and because the women didn’t go along with what he wanted, then he would assert himself sexually in a rape – and they feel entitled to have sex with whoever them want,” Clemente said.

“If that is the case, you would see that sort of behavior bleeding into his life – we call it leakage. So in his relationships with his wife or his children or people who are close to him, or he worked with, you’d see that kind of assertiveness and controlling nature in his general life and then it came out sexually with these rapes.”

Watch the full episode to hear the panel also weigh in on the decision by the University of Virginia to suspend fraternities on campus after an article appeared in Rolling Stone alleging a series of horrific gang rapes of multiple women at one of the fraternities on campus.