After the news broke that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson would not face federal charges, Fox News senior judicial correspondent Judge Andrew Napolitano said on “Fox and Friends” that it looked like the federal investigation was merely to “satisfy Al Sharpton.” (VIDEO: Judge Napolitano: Did Obama ‘Provide Material Assistance To A Terrorist Organization?’)
HOST STEVE DOOCY: You know what gives a lot of people a bad taste about this whole situation is the fact that it just looked political. It looked like they can’t get their way in the grand jury, so Department of Justice …
NAPOLITANO: Yes. It looked like the the apparatus of the federal government was being put into place in order to satisfy Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton is a voice for some of the people in that community, whether he’s speaking the truth or whether he’s speaking political bluster. But the feds did the right thing by looking at this and coming to a mature, intellectually honest conclusion.