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The Smoking Gun released a lengthy report revealing that Witness 40, whose testimony convinced a grand jury not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown, completely fabricated her story and has a criminal history marked by mental illness, lying to authorities, and blatant racism.
According to the report, Witness 40 is a 45-year-old woman named Sandra McElroy, and her account that Brown charged at Wilson helped exonerate him. But a glance at her history throws her credibility into doubt: Though diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 16, McElroy told the grand jury she hasnt taken any medication for her condition in 25 years, and admitted that a car accident in 2001 left her struggl[ing] with a faulty memory ever since.
McElroy first reached out to prosecutors nearly four weeks after Browns death, and her account closely matched with the account Wilson gave of the shooting not surprising, considering that in the weeks leading up to her contacting authorities, she posted statements supporting Wilson on her Facebook wall
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The report McElroy gave police matched Wilsons testimony, which was leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch days before, but federal investigators were suspicious of McElroys account: why, for instance, was she in Ferguson, 30 miles north of her home? McElroy claimed that she had planned to drop in on a high school classmate who lived in the neighborhood and got lost, but later changed her story on November 3rd, after she randomly revealed that she kept a daily journal
Read the whole thing: http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-key-witness-in-darren-wilson-case-has-history-of-lying-to-police/
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)Plus, reading the transcript of the FBI interview with this woman showed so many holes in her story - from where she claimed to be going to how she claimed to have gotten out of the neighborhood.
I love this comment from the story in The Smoking Gun (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236): "McElroys last two journal entries for August 9 read like an after-the-fact summary of the account she gave to federal investigators on October 22 and the Ferguson grand jury the following afternoon. It is so obvious that the notebook entries were not contemporaneous creations that investigators should have checked to see if the ink had dried."
The only reason the DA put in her "journal" was to supply support for Wilson's story.