Police Sources Tell Reporter That More Witnesses Are Coming Forward To Confirm Officer’s Account

[joeglow3]

"On Friday, someone claiming to be a friend of Officer Darren Wilson, the policeman involved in the shooting death of Michael Brown, gave an account that was very different from other stories we had heard.

In “Josie’s” version of events, Wilson asked Brown and Dorian Johnson, 22, to move out of the street, before they became confrontational. When Wilson heard about the strong-arm robbery on the radio, he tried to get out of the car, and Brown slammed his door shut. And, then he opened the car again. He tried to get out. He stands up. And then Michael just bum-rushes him and shoves him back into the car. Punches him in the face and then Darren grabs for his gun.

Michael grabbed for the gun. At one point he got the gun entirely turned against his hip. And he shoves it away. And the gun goes off.

That account was confirmed by several sources in Ferguson speaking with CNN’s Don Lemon, who told him that it matched Officer Wilson’s account.

And Monday night, St. Louis Dispatch reporter Christine Byers tweeted that that recounting of events has been backed up by even more people on the ground in Ferguson."

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/169302-police-sources-tell-reporter-witnesses-coming-forward-corroborate-officers-account/

The fix is in.

[WinkyDink]

1. Amazing how some memories improve over time. Kind of like Reverse Alzheimer's. The "hip" detail

is a nice touch.

[MohRokTah]

5. Yeah, how did they see what was going on in that police car through, you know, STEEL?

They're superpeople from Krypton with X-Ray vision!

[gollygee]

2. We had four people who allowed their names to be used

who immediately had the same statement about what happening. Anonymous people days later don't impress me.

[MohRokTah]

3. Cops are doing PR for Wilson and McCulloch is acting as his defense attorney.

Damned straight the fix is in.

Can't wait to see the dozen white faces who were "eyewitnesses".

[UtahEther]

15. black or white

And if they were black eyewitnesses with the same account it would somehow be more credible?

[MohRokTah]

17. You chose that for your first post on DU?

Go watch a video of the aftermath of Wilson executing Brown in the street in broad daylight. The only white faces you'll see are cops.

And Wilson is pacing up and down like a caged tiger wihout a mark on him regardless of what bullshit about injuries is being spread. He was there for hours.

[upaloopa]

20. The town is 67% Black. I doubt any of these

new witnesses are Black and I doubt any of them are eye witnesses. The eye witnesses have been named and seen on TV. They have not spoken to the police. These new witnesses have not been seen on TV or named. I doubt they are eye witnesses with an original story to tell. Who are they? Where were they when the shooting took place. Where is the police report? Where is the shooter? All missing!

[pintobean]

37. How is McCulloch is acting as his defense attorney?

[villager]

4. Yes, all these anonymous unsourced sources have definitely got the agreed-upon story

...right.

[Lars39]

6. Yeah, I can hear it now..."we'll make your arrest warrants go away if you testify the way we want".

[stranger81]

7. This "Josie" character didn't seem to be "confirming" Wilson's account --

she was simply parroting it. I heard her statement, and she never claimed to have been a percipient witness to the incident.

[Duer 157099]

62. That was how I understood it too

In fact, she mentioned Facebook, and it sort of sounded like she might have just been retelling what she read on the Facebook page of Wilson's significant other.

[IDemo]

8. And I'll bet they were all at Woodstock...

[City Lights]

9. They've got their talking points down like Republicans

making the rounds on cable teevee.

[jwirr]

10. So there should be close up gun powder residue to prove this? Why have these witnesses waited so

long to come forward?

[FLyellowdog]

25. Didn't at least one of the autopsy reports

say there was no gun residue on Brown? Methinks me smells a rat.

[jwirr]

43. A big rat.

[redqueen]

46. A big white stinking racist rat. nt

[BklnDem75]

57. If the cops still have Michael's clothes...

It's probably at the firing range right now.

[Sanity Claws]

11. I guess they needed all this time to coordinate their story

Fabrication needs time. Truth doesn't.

[Rex]

12. So this friend was in the police truck when the assault happened?

[0rganism]

13. this doesnt work as a witness story, as reported

"When Wilson heard about the strong-arm robbery on the radio"

This detail alone throws the story into doubt. Are we to believe that the "witness" could know what Darren Wilson heard on his radio?

I'm going to bet this is simply parroting of FPD talking points. The more this gets into the echo chamber, the more it's supported in the zeitgeist, the easier it will be to stack the jury and get Ofcr. Wilson the acquittal the FPD thinks he deserves.

[Voice for Peace]

56. also.. I may be mistaken but thought I read today

that it's been acknowledged Wilson could not have known
about the robbery nor suspect's description at that point.
That officially it the robbery is not connected to the shooting.

[GitRDun]

63. I thought the store did not call in the robbery n/t

[Quayblue]

14. witnesses on the scene or witness to the officers testimony?

This story is playing these questions against each other and I call bullshit.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Here come the CoFAAs

The Circle of Friends and Associates can always be counted on to pass on lies to support the desired stories. I hope these people are put on lie detector tests and their whereabouts confirmed at the time of the critical events.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. The Media Trial by Leak of Michael Brown

The Ferguson PD and St. Louis PD orchestrate a smear campaign on a murder victim, while hiding any actual evidence of their investigation from the public.

[justiceischeap]

40. The real reason the PR firm was brought in?

Not just to "field media requests" as stated. I'm guessing they're behind this... I wonder if any of the chipper white girls on the PR site is named Josie.

[Bjorn Against]

19. "Josie" is not a witness, she was not at the scene

Hearing a second hand account does not make a person a witness.

[bettyellen]

52. the only part of Josie's account I buy was that is "was unbelievable" how Michael charged at the

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cop. I take that to mean she doesn't even believe it herself.

[Voice for Peace]

58. correct. it was and still is unbelievable.

especially after so many actual eyewitness accounts.

I don't know how much is registered on social media, ie
people posting as they saw what was happening, or
immediately after, people actually on the scene, but
it would be important time-stamped evidence, I would
think.

[blm]

21. ijreview is pro-fascist propaganda media

.

[joeglow3]

28. that was not the point

The point is that a fix in. Thus, that fits the narrative.

[blm]

65. the point is that the pro-fascist propaganda network is crucial to pulling off the 'fix'

You think Poppy Bush, Rev Moon, Rupert Murdoch, and their NWO cronies didn't expect their RW propaganda media machine would be used like this when they were developing this 'machine' in the 80s and 90s?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. If this goes before a Grand Jury

something tells me they are preparing the public for a decision not to indict Darren Wilson. I don't know how it works in Missouri but in most jurisdictions the grand jurors remain anonymous and this case could very well be heard by an all-white group. The DA usually has the option of presenting the case to the Grand Jury where the public is excluded or going directly to the Courts for a preliminary hearing for probable cause. I'd choose the latter in this case like they did in the OJ case to avoid any appearance of back door shenanigans, because of racial sensitivities, and because of excessive media attention.

[rgbecker]

23. Is there indeed an account from Wilson? A police report?

Has it been released and does anybody have a link to it so we all can read it?

[Azathoth]

30. Obviously Wilson has given them a statement, but it hasn't been released

No one knows exactly what Wilson's story is and the police deliberately have kept it that way. Any witness accounts that corroborate his story thus become more credible because there is no way for potentially sympathetic witnesses to fit their stories to his.

[alcibiades_mystery]

35. Except when you have somebody claiming to be one of his friends trumpeting his "version"

on radio and CNN.

[Azathoth]

38. Actually, that was a caller to some right-wing radio show

And no one knew whether it was real or bullshit until yesterday when CNN apparently got someone with knowledge of the investigation to confirm it. By now it doesn't matter because the police/FBI have gotten statements from all the important witnesses.

[logosoco]

24. I keep hearing about this story and it is giving me such a headache!

This "Josie", who I have heard is a friend of Wilson's girlfriend, calls a radio show, and so many people take what she says as the truth.

SHE WAS NOT THERE!

The Ferguson chief said in a press conference (I saw the clip) and he said the officer did NOT know about the "robbery". He was confronting the two men because they were "jaywalking".

If this story is true, (and I do not really think it is, no matter how many times they tell it), physical evidence will show. Mike Brown's finger prints will be all over the vehicle, and, if the story is correct, on the officer's holster or weapon. Why not just release the official account that shows this evidence instead of relying on this "Jodie" person?

If there was a physical altercation before the shooting, I don't see it happening like this. The cop just sat there and let this person "bum rush" them, then get shoved down , have their gun almost taken away, and then punched? And at some point the gun went off in the car? But then they were able to come to their senses and, while this person was getting away, they pulled the gun and shot them to death?

I don't know. So much happening in the past few weeks. I am trying to use my intelligence, but it does not seem to match up with what so many are saying.
Something is missing in that narrative. If it is true, that person should never have been a cop and needs a new job in another field altogether.

[justiceischeap]

42. Plus, wouldn't there be bruises on Brown's hand if he punched Wilson in the jaw? nt

[Voice for Peace]

59. or if he had fractured his orbit as is being claimed?

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. Journalists need to stop using "police source" as if that is an official account of the state

And start recognizing it as PR for the killer - at best - and aiding and abetting at worst.

There is nothing neutral or official about the Ferguson or St. Louis County PD at this point.

We need a special prosecutor immediately.

[underpants]

27. How did she know that he heard about the strong-armed robbery on the radio?

This is like a bad mystery novel.

[underpants]

29. I see ijreview BS on Facebook all the time

and I heard it on Fox & Friends this morning - that people are now coming out backing the official story BUT THERE IS NO OFFICIAL STORY - sorry this is complete bullshit.

[Avalux]

31. Unnamed sources, second and third hand information...nothing here.

'Josie', who has been spreading Wilson's account of events, wasn't there and is a friend of his girlfriend (supposedly). And so far, if there are eye witnesses who agree with the story we've heard from Josie (who again, didn't see anything with her own eyes), we don't know who they are. The police may indeed have a dozen eyewitnesses in support of Wilson, or they could be making it all up.

We know nothing.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. And the leaking continues

and the effort to influence the potential jury pool continues. The convenience store tape, the alleged marijuana in Brown's system, and now the multitude of witnesses who will back Darren Wilson's account.

The prospective prosecutor in this case had a father who was a police officer who was killed in the line of duty by a black man. This is starting to really trouble me.

[alcibiades_mystery]

33. Special prosecutor is needed immediately in this case: Bob McCulloch cannot investigate impartially

The leaking from completely biased "police sources" is unconscionable.

This a fucking murder investigation! Are they all fucking crazy down there?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

39. There was an African American lady who appeared on CNN right after the shooting

and described her application for a job in the DA's office down there after she graduated from law school. She said one of the questions she was asked during the job interview for Deputy D.A. was whether she thought she could work in an office where the "N" word was used all the time. No office in modern America, especially in a DA's office, would permit the use of that expression unless it was being tolerated or even encouraged directly from the top.

[PoutrageFatigue]

34. Uh-huh....

...I bet there are...

[wandy]

36. ijreview is just another sources of RW propaganda and typically carries........

stories such as........
Dr. Ben Carson’s Voice of Reason on Ferguson: ‘We’ve Got To Start Being Objective’
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/169320-dr-ben-carson-ferguson-weve-got-start-objective/

‘Then HOW Can You Say There’s No Evidence of Criminal Wrongdoing?!’ – Trey Gowdy Grills IRS Commissioner Koskinen
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/06/150203-can-say-theres-evidence-criminal-wrongdoing-trey-gowdy-grills-irs-commissioner-koskinen/

Meet the Progressive DA Texas Governor Rick Perry Wanted Removed from the Public Integrity Unit
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/168537-meet-progressive-da-texas-governor-rick-perry-wanted-removed-public-integrity-unit/

Read them for a good laugh. Believe them at your own risk.

[blackspade]

41. Too many lies and too much inconsistency for me to believe anything out of the PD.

All of the eyewitness accounts that have been made are very consistent and do not support the cop narrative.

Fail.

[onethatcares]

44. all they have to do

is publish a transcript and time line of the police radio traffic.

It's really quite simple in this day and age.

[Xyzse]

45. Were these people there? Unless it is the following 5:

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/08/_5_eyewitness_accounts_of_michael_brown_s_shooting.html?google_editors_picks=true

I question their credibility and want them to prove that they were there.
1 - Dorian Johnson - Friend of Victim and was with him during the incident.
2 - Tiffany Mitchell - Employee at a near apartment complex. Corroborates Mr. Johnson's account.
3 - Piaget Crenshaw - Woman in an apartment balcony who saw the incident. Corroborates Mr. Johnson's account.
4 - Emmanuel Freeman - Tweeted about the event immediately after it happened. Saw the shots after initial contact with the officer.
5 - Anonymous Man from Convenience Store - Mentioned that the cop kept shooting even when the Victim raised his hands to give up.

Hopefully they would name themselves, otherwise I feel like these are just guys who say this to muddy the waters.

Important issue is not Michael Brown's character or any of that sort, it is the shooting itself and the use of excessive force.

[kwolf68]

47. Old trick

Just as the fascists have always done, you do NOT need to PROVE your side, simply muddy the waters. they did it with DDT, lead paint, smoking, global warming and racist shit-mongering cops.

Just 'create doubt' and you then create a divide. If even HALF of Conservatives would stand up against this brutality from police officers, then we could really change this nation, but we CAN'T do it with JUST progressives, considered an ideological faction. Now some Conservatives are racists shitheads who are happy Mike Brown is dead, but there are OTHERS who could be friends in such a cut-and-dried case, but the propaganda won't allow them to critically think about the issues, because they see the "big black Liberal boogeyman" hiding in the corner.

So the mis-information campaign works. The PR company is a full-blown propaganda assault on reality and facts with the hopes to make this all go away so these police state can get back to business as usual.

[Unvanguard]

49. The reporter in question is on leave; tweets were not suitable for publication.

https://twitter.com/ChristineDByers/status/501788192727498752

[HooptieWagon]

53. Put on leave of absense by the paper (St Louis Dispatch)

hmmm... interesting. And she's taking a beating on her twitter account.

[Politicalboi]

50. Even "IF" Mike did do that

It's still not worth getting killed over when you're surrendering.

[6000eliot]

51. He never heard about the robbery. The store never called it in.

[Voice for Peace]

54. must be true! since all those unlikely-to-have-been-seen details match the officers' account!

hopefully the feds will weed out the liars from the actual witnesses.

[Lex]

55. They needed the autopsy results to get

their story concocted.

[seveneyes]

60. It does differ from "Shot in the back while kneeling and surrendering"

It's all a battle of words while the facts are getting their pants on.

[LordGlenconner]

61. By the time they are done Mike Brown will have been made into Ted Bundy, Bin Laden, Zodiac Killer

This is a coordinated effort to smear this kid to make sure a very bad cop escapes justice. I wouldn't be surprised if the department has some Republican consultant involved, probably working pro bono out of a sense of dedication to preserving 'Murica the way it "supposed to be".

Fuck them. Fuck them all to hell.

[MFM008]

64. these "witnesses" are here

to muddy the waters and set this racist killer up for getting off on this charge. Confuse, convolute, divert.