Vox Sentences: Ferguson, the day after

1. We have a decision

: 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]