Justice in America: Part 8,742 in an infinite series

[nobody123]

So it turns out that one of the favourite star witnesses in the grand jury farce investigating the killing of Michael Brown lied, and that the "prosecutor" (yes, scare quotes used perfectly correctly for once) knew about it.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236
and
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/...ed-racist-with-severe-memory-loss?showAll=yes

PAGE 158 : Witness admits to regularly searching the internet for facts about the case.

PAGE 170: Witness admits to commenting on articles about the cases for weeks before she ever claimed to be a witness.

PAGE 170: Witness admits to “using the N-Word half a dozen times” in her comments about the case.

PAGE 177: FBI agent asks her to explain some of her comments about the case. Witness #40 admits to saying, “they need to kill the fucking niggers” and the protests are “an ape-fest.”

But even ignoring all the red flags above (and many more in the two articles), the real kicker is the insane and changing stories she gives to explain her presence in Ferguson at the time of the shooting. First she claims she was there to spontaneously visit a high school pal she hadn't seen in over 20 years. Then she claims she was doing regular trips to the 'hood to better understand African Americans. Crazy fucking shit that beggars belief. The cops knew she was lying, and the "prosecutor" sure as fuck knew she was lying. This is insane. Utterly insane. This is just a small snapshot of the sausage factory known as justice, American style.

 

[Aardvark154]

This was the testimony of but one witness, and it fits with the physical evidence (which was NOT released to the press until after the Grand Jury proceedings), the testimony of the "hands up don't shoot" witnesses simply can't be reconciled with the physical evidence.

 

[danmand]

This was the testimony of but one witness, and it fits with the physical evidence (which was NOT released to the press until after the Grand Jury proceedings), the testimony of the "hands up don't shoot" witnesses simply can't be reconciled with the physical evidence.

Ahem, herr?

 

[mandrill]

If the prosecutor led discredited evidence that supported the theory that Wilson shot Michael Brown out of malice even when the latter was attempting to surrender, then he has to lead equally non credible evidence from a pro Wilson witness. It is part of the "throw everything at the Grand Jury and see what they make of it" approach. As Aardvark says, the forensic evidence is the game winner here.

 

[Hurricane Hank]

The fact that he just stole from a store, and pushed aside the clerk certainly tells me he was a "hands up" kind of guy. Thug, criminal, not to be missed.