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Ferguson grand jury papers full of inconsistencies (LOL reading!)
AP ^ | 27 Nov 14 | HOLBROOK MOHR, DAVID A. LIEB and PHILLIP LUCAS

Posted on 11/27/2014 1:03:44 PM PST by SkyPilot

Some witnesses said Michael Brown had been shot in the back. Another said he was face-down on the ground when Officer Darren Wilson "finished him off." Still others acknowledged changing their stories to fit published details about the autopsy or admitted that they did not see the shooting at all.

An Associated Press review of thousands of pages of grand jury documents reveals numerous examples of statements made during the shooting investigation that were inconsistent, fabricated or provably wrong. For one, the autopsies ultimately showed Brown was not struck by any bullets in his back.

Prosecutors exposed these inconsistencies before the jurors, which likely influenced their decision not to indict Wilson in Brown's death.

Bob McCulloch, the St. Louis County prosecutor, said the grand jury had to weigh testimony that conflicted with physical evidence and conflicting statements by witnesses as it decided whether Wilson should face charges.

"Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicting with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence," McCulloch said.

The decision Monday not to charge Wilson with any crime set off more violent protests in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson and around the country, fueled by claims that the unarmed black 18-year-old was shot while surrendering to the white officer in the mostly African-American city.

What people thought were facts about the Aug. 9 shooting have become intertwined with what many see as abuses of power and racial inequality in America.

And media coverage of the shooting's aftermath made it into the grand jury proceedings. Before some witnesses testified, prosecutors showed jurors clips of the same people making statements on TV.

Their inconsistencies began almost immediately after the shooting...

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: black; ferguson; liars; missouri; race
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To: SkyPilot
Yep, and most of those 'inconsistencies' were not supported by fact, and that's why the Grand Jury discounted them. The stories the media spread were emotional reactions to the shooting, and were not eyewitness accounts. Even the so-called 'eyewitness accounts' spread by the media were just second and third hand stories told by people upset that a white police officer had killed a black 'teenager' so that MUST be bad, right?

I'm glad the Grand Jury released its report so folks could see the facts. Some will never accept the facts, but many will see what is true behind the media firestorm.

21 posted on 11/27/2014 1:36:15 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: MeshugeMikey
fee.. fee..

fi.. fi ..

fo.. foo.. fum,

I smells Swishers In da Auditoryum

Michael Brown... Michael Brown..

He's a clown, that Michael Brown

He's gonna get shot, just you wait and see

Why's everybody always shootin' at me

22 posted on 11/27/2014 1:42:03 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

Good one! Fix one up for the Kingsmen’s ‘Jolly Green Giant’ song!!!


23 posted on 11/27/2014 1:48:23 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If it’s like the Watts area in Los Angeles, Ferguson can look forward to a future of gang activity, housing projects, and constant explosive tension with the police accompanied with minimal actual law enforcement.


24 posted on 11/27/2014 1:52:57 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: SkyPilot

This was the above-the-fold top headline for the local newspaper this morning, which I learned about because I saw it in the supermarket, buying an extra carton of milk—it would never have graced the driveway of our home.


25 posted on 11/27/2014 1:56:32 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“or what the meanings of are are”

or what the meanings of be is be


26 posted on 11/27/2014 2:03:40 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: SkyPilot

Try as the lapdog MSM might, the truth hits home and they just can’t bring themselves to admit that young black thugs are perpetrators, not victims


27 posted on 11/27/2014 2:04:52 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Get ready St. Louis . . . Guns Up . . .LnL . . .STK)
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To: SkyPilot

28 posted on 11/27/2014 2:05:15 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“fee.. fee..

fi.. fi ..”

reminded me of an old joke...
you write down and have somebody read
Fee Fi Fee Fee Fi Fee Fee

Then you nod, and say right, that’s Mike Tyson’s Phone Number


29 posted on 11/27/2014 2:05:32 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Unfortunately, the Sec 8 housing will lure them into the adjacent communities, just waiting to be screwed up like Ferguson. Ants at the picnic, here they come for what belongs to others, over and over and over.


30 posted on 11/27/2014 2:07:20 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Get ready St. Louis . . . Guns Up . . .LnL . . .STK)
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To: SkyPilot

So hard for the MSM to come to grips with the fact that all of the solid, incontrovertible evidence supported Wilson’s statements.

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31 posted on 11/27/2014 2:10:45 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: NoLibZone

“ferguson has taught me much about the black community”

So, is this your first week in America or did you just get cable?


32 posted on 11/27/2014 2:13:11 PM PST by KingLudd
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To: HiTech RedNeck

>> “One big fat baloney salad sandwich, and they riot over that???” <<

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They’ve been told all of their lives by the schools, and the MSM, that they have been wronged.

Trained to live on the Democrap plantation.


33 posted on 11/27/2014 2:13:38 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: smoothsailing

Went to Craig’s List to check out what was for sale in the Ferguson, MO area. Check out these post especially the ones that I found from Ballwin which is 12.4 miles from Ferguson, MO.

Nov 27 NEW IN BOX! WESTINGHOUSE 24” LED HDTV! COST $169 + TAX! UNWANTED GIFT $119 (BALLWIN) pic map electronics - by owner

Nov 27 NEW IN BOX! Westinghouse 37” 1080 LED HDTV! Owner Passed Away WARRANTY $219 (BALLWIN) pic electronics - by owner

Nov 27 NEW IN BOX! HP Photosmart 5520 Wireless e-All-In-One Printer! MFG.WARR $79 (BALLWIN) pic electronics - by owner

Nov 27 NEW IN BOX!ELEMENT 46”1080p HDTV wJBL SOUND wEXT.WARRANTY!Owner Passed $429 (BALLWIN) pic map electronics - by owner

Now look at the phone number of each one.....see anything similar? LOL

Has to be a democrat, seems he knows a few dead people.

If I were a cop watching this site I would be contacting this person in a heart beat!

Thought about calling to see if I could take a guess where it came from.

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/search/ela


34 posted on 11/27/2014 2:19:17 PM PST by Johnny_cash (10 out of 10 idiots support 0Bama!)
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To: Johnny_cash

The Homeboy Shopping Network.

35 posted on 11/27/2014 2:20:53 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dsrtsage
OOOOO that deserves a





THANK YOU
36 posted on 11/27/2014 2:23:48 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SkyPilot
"Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicting with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence," McCulloch said.

Any cop will tell you that generally the least reliable evidence in any investigation is eye witness testimony.

37 posted on 11/27/2014 2:23:53 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Enterprise

aahaha WE HAVE A WINNER!

FREEPER IDOL


38 posted on 11/27/2014 2:27:55 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: smoothsailing

woop they he BE!!!


39 posted on 11/27/2014 2:28:24 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SkyPilot

The headshot went through the top of the head, through the face, exited the jaw, went past the clavicle, and stopped by the lung. If Wilson had ‘finished him off’ while Brown was laying on the ground, the officer would have to be in a prone position. That has never been stated by any witness. Witnesses lie, forensics doesn’t.


40 posted on 11/27/2014 2:38:07 PM PST by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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