remember that the scope of this list is */_issues specific to
Minneapolis._/*
If you can't include anything related to Minneapolis in your post,
please keep you comments off this list.
Terrell Brown
Forum Manager
On 12/17/2014 2:12 PM, xxx wrote:
> Well Captain Jack the story you support is starting to fall apart. It is
looking more and more like the Grand Jury trail was fixed and the cops in
Ferguson are full of it. Both of the only witnesses who claimed Brown charged
at Wilson have now been discredited. Witness 40 is a racist liar who wasnt even
there
(http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236)
And the fact that the defense even brought in such a witness calls question to
the legitimacy of the entire case.
>
> As for Witness 10 (the one you use to support your claims) this was not a
credible witness, Here is a direct transcript from MSNBC on that one
>
> LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: "Witness number 10 was working in the neighborhood, and
he begins his story to the police with: "I seen the two young guys walkin’ down
the street on the same sidewalk that I was on." Six weeks later, witness number
10 testified to the grand jury and changed his story about where Michael Brown
was walking. He said under oath to the grand jury, "I seen Mike Brown and his
friend walking down the street closer to the curb, not on the sidewalk." That
is the kind of thing the district attorney was complaining about last
night—witnesses changing their stories to fit the publicly known facts.
>
> Here is why witness number 10 was the most important witness to appear in
Darren Wilson’s defense. This is what he described Michael Brown doing when
Officer Wilson got out of the car and chased him: "[Michael Brown] stopped. He
did turn. He did some sort of body gesture. I’m not sure what it was, but I
know it was a body gesture. And I could say for sure he never put his hands up
after he did his body gesture. He ran towards the officer full charge." So
there’s witness number 10 saying the magic words:
> He never put his hands up, and he ran towards the officer full charge.
>
> In the grand jury, when the prosecutor asked witness number 10 to describe
what he called a "body gesture," he said, "I can’t say for sure what sort of
body gesture. I cannot fully recall. All I know is it was not in a surrendering
motion of I’m surrendering, putting my hands up or anything. I’m not sure if it
was like a shoulder shrug or him pulling his pants up. I’m not sure." So,
there’s the district attorney’s favorite witness, the only one he quoted last
night, saying, "I cannot fully recall. ... I’m not sure. ... I’m not sure,"
within the body of an answer in which the only thing he’s absolutely sure of is
that Michael Brown did not do a surrendering motion. In a real courtroom, when
a witness begins his answer with "I can’t say for sure," and then in the body
of his answer he says, "I cannot recall fully," and then says, "I am not sure,"
twice within that same answer, that witness observation does not survive
cross-examination. But there was no cross-examin
> ation in the grand jury."
>
> So there you have it Jack. You are wrong about this case. Know go do
something real with your life.