The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him “like a football player, head down,” is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a “complete fabrication,” The Smoking Gun has learned.
In interviews with police, FBI agents, and federal and state prosecutors--as well as during two separate appearances before the grand jury that ultimately declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson--the purported eyewitness delivered a preposterous and perjurious account of the fatal encounter in Ferguson.
Referred to only as “Witness 40” in grand jury material, the woman concocted a story that is now baked into the narrative of the Ferguson grand jury, a panel before which she had no business appearing.
While the “hands-up” account of Dorian Johnson is often cited by those who demanded Wilson’s indictment, “Witness 40”’s testimony about seeing Brown batter Wilson and then rush the cop like a defensive end has repeatedly been pointed to by Wilson supporters as directly corroborative of the officer’s version of the August 9 confrontation. The “Witness 40” testimony, as Fox News sees it, is proof that the 18-year-old Brown’s killing was justified, and that the Ferguson grand jury got it right.
However, unlike Johnson, “Witness 40”--a 45-year-old St. Louis resident named Sandra McElroy--was nowhere near Canfield Drive on the Saturday afternoon Brown was shot to death.
Witness 40 is of course the ONLY witness that Sean Hannity ever quotes, while he conveniently pretends that the other twenty or more witnesses do not exist.
Not at all surprising that he chose the one that is a fucking liar.
For those who may have forgotten this is the graphic that shows the numerous inconsistencies among the witnesses.
I strongly encourage you to read the entire article. It is quite eye opening.
For the life of me, I don't see Witness #40 on that chart. I see two Witness #41 and two Witness #44. And two Witness #48 ????
ReplyDeleteThat could be because the non-prosecution played cutesy with the release of the evidence, letting it out in bits and pieces, no doubt for the purposes of further obfuscation.
DeleteI'd like to know who recruited Sandra McElroy as a fake witness.
ReplyDeleteMy bet is she's a useful fool who self recruited. More seriously, you have to wonder how it was the local "law enforcement" was "fooled" by her. Even if they aren't the sharpest tools this had to be rather obvious.
Deleteso WTF happens now ?!?
DeleteWhat happens now is, the prosecutor doubles down on how wonderful and beyond reproach the grand jury's decision was, and Fox news takes that and runs with it.
DeleteWhat happens now is, BACK TO BENGHAZI !!!
DeleteShades of the famous Benghazi witness who wasn't. Right winger play book strikes again.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely maddening.
ReplyDeleteAnd why, once AGAIN, is it left to Gryphen the private citizen to report on this? American media- WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?
For one of the best, short summaries of modern police brutality read the part in red at the bottom of the article:
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ReplyDeleteThe Smoking Gun reported it. See link Gryphen put up to article above. ;-)
Using witnesses who lie is common practice by prosecutors, but most people don't know this. They also use expert witnesses who lie and make up information they put in their reports they are paid well for. Cops are known to lie in court proceedings as much as 50% of the time. Prosecutors are the biggest liars of all. If one does not have the money to hire a good attorney they are screwed.
ReplyDeleteWitness 40's original story involved an impossible route to take her by the Canfield Apartments just as the shooting occurred. Although a street map makes it look as though you can drive the route she described, there are barricades to prevent thru traffic.
ReplyDeleteWitness 40 was NOT there and the prosecutor knows that.
Darren Wilson is a pathological liar as well and the prosecutor and grand jury knows that also. If they don't, they're extremely inept.
DeleteSurprised? Not at all. This goes on every single day. We have a 'pay to play' justice system. If you can pay (buy a lawyer, judge, juror, witness) you can play and get away with anything. If you can't pay? You go away. That is and always has been our law of the land.
ReplyDeleteKnow what? I'm betting we can all bitch and bitch well. But bitching isn't changing anything. It's just bitching. WHAT do we do? Is there anything that can be done? If yes, what? What is it going to take? Where do we start?
Are we really satisfied living like this?
Thank you for keeping up with the story. It really is about the value of human life and about the different way of life of marginalized people. The transcripts of Dorian Johnson's interview to the FBI and to the grand jury reveals a disadvantage that is difficult to talk about, but I think it influences the treatment to Michael and Dorian by the police, the prosecutors, and jurors. It also reveals that Michael was murdered by an enraged policeman. Of course, whatever ticked off Darren Wilson does not excuse him to get away with murder.
ReplyDeleteReading the transcripts of Dorian, the friend of Michael Brown, at times felt like reading a comedy, why they met early in the morning, what they talked about, but it gets really sad when he describes how his friend got gun downed.
Something tells me someone got paid well for her testimony. Fox keeps mentioning this juror, yet the msm doesn't even mention it. Why should anyone need to go to a blogpost to get to the truth over and over again? What good is the media when all they want to do is show warm and fuzzy clips because, you know, Santa Clause is coming to town?
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