Bob McCulloch announces he found the shooters!

[Cooley Hurd]

WTF????? Am I supposed to believe a word that escapes his lips???????

(Re: Ferguson Police shooting - McCulloch has his smarmy mug on TV now saying they found the shooter).

He LIED to the Grand Jury about the Micheal Brown murder and now HE'S the AUTHORITY on what happened 3 nights ago????????

THIS is BEYOND surreal!!!!

[virgogal]

1. I'm out of the loop,as usual----what lie did he tell? I never even heard of him.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. He was the DA in the Darren Wilson/Michael Brown investigation...

He (and his staff) LIED to the Grand Jury.

Now, he's the face coming out to announce the ID of the shooter that shot at the cops on Thursday... BAD optics, if you work for the municipality.

[virgogal]

17. Thanks

[SummerSnow]

2. As long as a black person is arrested , he doesn't care

[B2G]

3. Sounds like the guy confessed. nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Link? n/t

[pintobean]

8. here

http://fox2now.com/2015/03/15/st-louis-county-police-suspected-shooter-of-two-police-officers-in-custody/

[Cooley Hurd]

10. sigh... here:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/15/ferguson-police-shooting-arrest/24808987/

A 20-year-old protester has been charged with shooting two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., last week, authorities said Sunday.

County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said Jeffrey Williams was charged with two counts of assault in the first degree, one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle, and thee counts of armed criminal action.

McCulloch said Williams admitted firing the shots, but said he was shooting at someone else.

[blm]

24. Press running with claim he was a protestor when he wasn't….just

heard it on NPR, too.

Exactly the frame McCulloch wanted.

[blm]

6. More plausible that it was a personal dispute and shots mistakenly hit police

than the initial assumption that protestors targeted police.

I never bought that assumption because of the distance of the shooter.

We'll see how this pans out. McCulloch gave his version of events the same earnestness with which he read that 'testimony' from the well known crazy lady….. as empirical evidence.

[B2G]

14. You're going to tell us what is and isn't plausible?

After your 400+ thread asserting it was the work of a right wing provocateur?

OK.

[blm]

15. I didn't assert anything - your brain misread the words 'I think' and 'COULD have been'

and I clearly linked to many reports and articles why it should be considered a possibility.

Sorry your brain couldn't wrap around the words you rejected.

[razorman]

16. If the distances I heard about were accurate (120 + yards),

that does sound more plausible, considering a pistol was used. Either way, though, the dude needs to do jail time.

[blm]

18. Absolutely needs jail time.

It's the Ferguson Attorney pointing at protestors and the media repeating his version that is pissing me off, when the guy confessed he was aiming at one of the protestors.

[razorman]

34. Even so, his confession may or may not be the truth. The investigators

need hard evidence. But, whether he was firing at protestors, or at the officers, it was still attempted murder.

[blm]

35. Of course it was - that doesn't change the point about McCulloch claiming

him to be 'a protestor' when he had no real presence there as a protestor.

[Cooley Hurd]

9. Um... The witnesses he called did:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/witnesses-lied-ferguson-grand-jury-bob-mcculloch_n_6356804.html

...and one of the prosecutors introduced something that was UN-Constitutional as Constitutional:

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/shocking-mistake-in-darren-wilson-grand-jury-364273731666



HE was in charge of that trainwreck...

[blm]

12. He didn't say he lied in the OP - he said

it would be difficult to believe McCulloch considering the lies he told in past pressers. For instance, the emphasis he gave to the testimony from the crazy lady even though they knew she was not credible and her story was impossible.

[Cooley Hurd]

13. Yeah... I thought that was clear...

Thank you, blm!!!

[blm]

19. Definite uptick of posters choosing to claim that which has not been written

instead of considering the words and thoughts that actually exist in the post.

[Cooley Hurd]

20. You're an old DU pal...

...back when we talked about Mr Mike. Who I miss still to this day.

[blm]

21. Think about him every day.

He was an enormous part of my life.

Howard Stern interviewed Aykroyd a few weeks ago for the 40th SNL anniversary. Aykroyd said if there was a Mt. Rushmore of SNL it would be Michael O'Donoghue (mentioned first), then Chevy, Lorne, and John. Exactly why Lorne still downplays the role of MO'D at every turn. Lorne knows that those who were actually there at the time still regard MO'D as its initial driving force and was the key to its integrity.

[Cooley Hurd]

22. Mike was the SEED of old SNL...

...and of every generation that came after. Maybe they don't recognize it now, but it was HIS vision, HIS irreverence that set the tone.

I like to think I carry a bit of that unique irreverence into every conversation I have with anyone. Wherever you are, Michael, I hope I carry your legacy on by being a snarky pisser! (even though I'm not in the Entertainment Industry)...

[blm]

23. heheh….

he was immense fun...

[Cooley Hurd]

25. ...and was the genus of TDS, Colbert, Letterman...

He was the father of irony-as-humor. Mike was THAT guy!!!!

[blm]

29. Colbert was a HUGE fan.

.

[Cooley Hurd]

30. Stephen took it to an entirely different level...

...and MASTERED the "damn you... listen to me I'm serious!" shtick that Mr Mike laid that seed for.

[blm]

32. heheh….he certainly made his mutation work.

I always wish MO'D could have seen it. Colbert was amazing at the farce.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

26. If McCulloch told me it was a warm sunny day I would grab my winter coat.

[NaturalHigh]

27. How did he lie to the grand jury?

He didn't even speak to them.

[Nye Bevan]

28. I'm assuming that the OP means that he allowed lying witnesses to testify to the Grand Jury.

And based upon the DOJ report, we know that many, many of the witnesses did indeed lie outright.

According to the DoJ report, federal investigators dismissed versions of the Brown-Wilson confrontation provided by 24 separate witnesses, who are identified in the document by a witness number and their respective ages, sex, and race. However, despite that limited information, some of the discredited witnesses are easy to identify. The testimony from these witnesses was alternately branded inconsistent, not credible, unreliable, incoherent, and based on rumor and hearsay.

Federal agents declared that “material portions” of Brown sidekick Dorian Johnson’s account were found to “lack credibility.” Two women who gave a series of media interviews about the shooting--Piaget Crenshaw and Tiffany Mitchell--were deemed unreliable by federal officials. The 19-year-old Crenshaw’s account was “riddled with inconsistencies” and certain details she provided “lack credibility,” according to the report. A construction worker who was laying pipe with a coworker near the shooting site was branded “not credible.” The other worker refused to meet with federal investigators.

Of the 24 individuals, several admitted lying during law enforcement interviews, with one teenager saying that he just “wanted to be a part of it.” After recanting her fabricated tale, a 23-year-old woman admitted that she “wanted to be involved from the outset” and be “part of something.”

Five of the witnesses are convicted felons, with two having convictions for “crimes of dishonesty.” “Witness 137,” a 40-year-old convicted murderer, claimed that Wilson stood over Brown and “finished him off” with a shot to the head, “execution” style. The felon also claimed to have heard Brown tell Wilson, “Don’t shoot.” The man, who eventually recanted most of his claims, “was untruthful to the FBI during his initial interview,” noted federal investigators.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/darren-wilson/ferguson-perjuryfest-786930

[NaturalHigh]

31. You have a good point there.

It seems to me that most of the lying witnesses were actually trying to get Wilson indicted.

[blm]

33. When he read the verdict he made a point of emphasizing the testimony from the

woman who was already considered by FBI to have lied about witnessing what happened and whose tale of being there was impossible. Yet, McCulloch read it as if it was considered solid evidence and the basis for the GJ letting Wilson off.

BTW - what is being lost in that DOJ report is that they could not find enough evidence to counter Wilson's account. In a trial there would have been greater opportunity to scrutinize and cross-examine Wilson and his witnesses. That wasn't going to happen with McCulloch.