5 Key Inconsistencies in What Happened During the Michael Brown Shooting

[XemaSab]

Since the St. Louis County prosecutor's office released a trove of documents and evidence reviewed by the grand jury that decided to not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, there have been numerous reports pointing out the discrepancies between Wilson's and various witness accounts of what happened on the day that Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. While the grand jury has put an end to the state's case against Wilson, questions about witness accounts could still sway the outcome of the Justice Department's ongoing investigation. The Washington Post, Vox, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, PBS, and the Wall Street Journal have reported on these different accounts in further detail, especially the differences between the testimonies of Wilson and Dorian Johnson, a friend who was with Brown when Wilson approached them. We matched those accounts up with McCulloch's statement during his announcement of the grand jury decision. Here are five key discrepancies:

1. What happened during Wilson's initial encounter with Brown and Dorian Johnson?

Prosecutor Robert McCulloch: Wilson saw Brown and Johnson in the street, slowed down and told them to get on the sidewalk, and words were exchanged.

Darren Wilson: Wilson saw Brown and Dorian Johnson walking in the middle of the road. He told Johnson and Brown to get on the sidewalk. He noticed Brown was holding Cigarillos and remembered the report about the theft.

Dorian Johnson: Brown stole the Cigarillos from the Ferguson Market and then the two of them were walking toward their apartments as Wilson passed. Wilson told them to "Get the fuck on the sidewalk."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/inconsistencies-what-happened-during-michael-brown-shooting

[R B Garr]

1. I didn't have to read past the first item to call bullshit.

The first item right away is bogus considering that Wilson never filed a police report. What was filed was incomplete, and that was apparently for a reason. If he has this much recall for the Grand Jury that he is checking the color of t-shirts during that stop, then he could have memorialized all of that in an incident report as is standard police procedure.

Now he's had months and weeks to dovetail every little detail into his testimony so that he can sound credible. It's bullshit.