Monday, November 24, 2014

Ferguson Shooting Witnesses Who Changed Their Stories in Favor of the Popular Narrative Guaranteed That No Charges Would Be Filed: If Activists Want to Blame Someone, Blame the Pro-Michael Brown Witnesses Who Lied Under Oath

The contrast couldn’t be more stark:

Pro-Michael Brown witnesses changed their stories so that they would match the popular narrative, while the eyewitnesses who supported the Ferguson police officer who shot Brown didn’t.   The evidence supported the witnesses who told the truth and weren’t affected by peer pressure.

Given that information, it’s no surprise at all that a grand jury refused to issue an indictment against the police officer.  How could they? 

Those lawyers who are crying about the grand jury system being “broken” should accept the fact that their witnesses turned out to be a bunch of liars who bore false witness to what they saw.  Some of the witnesses changed their story multiple times, too.  The grand jury system worked as well as it could have under the circumstances.

If there’s a lesson to be learned, it should be that witnesses to something like the Ferguson shooting shouldn’t let others influence the way that they tell their story.  Anyone who changed their story should be ashamed of themselves. 

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