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Sandra McElroy, a key Ferguson witness whose testimony to the grand jury that eventually exonerated Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of unarmed teen Michael Brown, has been among the most often cited in the media, simply made up her whole story, a new investigative report finds.
The new report calls into question the integrity of the grand jury process in the Ferguson case, because court documents show that prosecutors and federal investigators knew McElroy’s tale of witnessing the confrontation between Brown and Wilson was fiction.
originally posted by: xuenchen
The big question is:
Did the Grand Jury believe her?
There were many "witnesses".
Sandra McElroy, a key Ferguson witness whose testimony to the grand jury that eventually exonerated Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of unarmed teen Michael Brown, has been among the most often cited in the media, simply made up her whole story, a new investigative report finds.
Read more at www.inquisitr.com... 9
The Smoking Gun found that McElroy was the previously unidentified “Witness 40,” who by her own admission is a “racist” and “bi-polar,” and whose testimony was attacked and discredited repeatedly by prosecutors and federal agents who were conducting a civil rights investigation into the August 9 killing of 18-year-old Brown by Wilson.
I think releasing this now, is a diversionary tactic.
originally posted by: SyxPak
a reply to: intrptr
Sorry about My post being misconstrued. I Do believe that she is a liar, and believe the article. I only meant that it could be a div tactic being released now instead of say, next month, or later on…...
originally posted by: miss_sky
How stupid can that lady be? She should have lied and supported Browns side of the story. At least that way she could have gotten a government job out of it!
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: miss_sky
How stupid can that lady be? She should have lied and supported Browns side of the story. At least that way she could have gotten a government job out of it!
You don't think she was paid to give the testimony that exonerated Wilson?
originally posted by: miss_sky
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: miss_sky
How stupid can that lady be? She should have lied and supported Browns side of the story. At least that way she could have gotten a government job out of it!
You don't think she was paid to give the testimony that exonerated Wilson?
Her testimony didn't exonerate him, the forensic evidence did. She was just a whack job looking for her 15 seconds, I'm sure they knew her testimony wasn't credible.
McElroy, again under oath, explained to grand jurors that she was something of an amateur urban anthropologist. Every couple of weeks, McElroy testified, she likes to “go into all the African-American neighborhoods.” During these weekend sojourns--apparently conducted when her ex has the kids--McElroy said she will “go in and have coffee and I will strike up a conversation with an African-American and I will try to talk to them because I’m trying to understand more.”
As she testified, McElroy admitted that her sworn account of the Brown-Wilson confrontation was likely peppered with details of the incident she had read online. But she remained adamant about having been on Canfield Drive and seeing Brown “going after the officer like a football player” before being shot to death.
McElroy’s 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.