I was a witness, as a jump seat rider, to an aircraft accident. I gave what I thought was complete statement to NTSB. Nine months later, while prepping for Fed court testimony, I saw a diagram and transcript that almost made me feel like I was there again. I had read the NTSB conclusions, and was able to conclusively refute them, backed up by two of the three crew members. None of us had recollected the precise moment until reading the transcripts, which made us think "what was I seeing when that statement was made?"
Our testimony saved Delta about $10,000,000.
The misinformation effect happens when our recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information... the earliest recordings of an incident prove to be the most accurate due to a minimized misinformation effect...
and i believe that to be the case in this eyewitness's account of the Michael Brown shooting... her story is being customized to fit the information she has been exposed to since the incident...