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Townhall
Ferguson
Obscures Much Bigger Problems in the 'Black Community'
Larry Elder
Nov 27, 2014
From the very beginning, this was much ado about an aberration, a
tragic aberration to be sure, but an aberration nonetheless.
Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police Officer Darren
Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. Immediately, according to St. Louis County
Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, witnesses began to give
different versions of what happened.
The apparent would-be star witness, Dorian Johnson, was with Brown when
the shooting occurred. He gave a dramatic account of a trigger-happy
bigoted cop who shot "my friend" in the back and gunned him down
despite the victim attempting to surrender by placing his hands up.
Other alleged eyewitnesses came forward with similar, if not identical,
descriptions of an aggressive, out-of-control cop.
Several witnesses, according to McCulloch, later changed their
testimony, with some admitting that they really didn't see the incident
-- just heard about it and so filled in the blanks in their own mind.
And some witnesses were simply proven wrong by the physical evidence.
Others corroborated the officer's account.
McCulloch explained why more information wasn't released in a "timely"
fashion: "Those closely guarded details, especially about the physical
evidence, give law enforcement a yardstick for measuring the
truthfulness of witnesses." McCulloch explained that a trail of Brown's
blood led from the police car, and was found 25 feet farther away from
where Brown's body lay -- suggesting Brown turned and came toward
Wilson, as the officer said. "Physical evidence," said McCulloch, "does
not change because of public pressure or personal agenda...
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