Key witness in Ferguson caught lying multiple times
According to a report by The Smoking Gun, a key witness in the Michael Brown shooting case lied about pretty much everything.
Sandra McElroy, known as “Witness 40,” testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel Darren Wilson before charging at him “like a football player, head down.”
[McElroy] is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a “complete fabrication,” The Smoking Gun has learned.
In interviews with police, FBI agents, and federal and state prosecutors–as well as during two separate appearances before the grand jury that ultimately declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson–the purported eyewitness delivered a preposterous and perjurious account of the fatal encounter in Ferguson.
Referred to only as “Witness 40” in grand jury material, the woman concocted a story that is now baked into the narrative of the Ferguson grand jury, a panel before which she had no business appearing.
While the “hands-up” account of Dorian Johnson is often cited by those who demanded Wilson’s indictment, “Witness 40”’s testimony about seeing Brown batter Wilson and then rush the cop like a defensive end has repeatedly been pointed to by Wilson supporters as directly corroborative of the officer’s version of the August 9 confrontation. The “Witness 40” testimony, as Fox News sees it, is proof that the 18-year-old Brown’s killing was justified, and that the Ferguson grand jury got it right.
However, unlike Johnson, “Witness 40”–a 45-year-old St. Louis resident named Sandra McElroy–was nowhere near Canfield Drive on the Saturday afternoon Brown was shot to death.
There’s no way of knowing what impact McElroy’s testimony had on members of the grand jury, who decided to clear Wilson of any wrongdoing in Brown’s death.
McElroy waited four weeks after the shooting to contact cops. By the time she gave a statement to St. Louis police on September 11, a general outline of Wilson’s version of the shooting had already appeared in the press.
McElroy’s account of the confrontation aligned with Wilson’s reported recollection of the incident.
Such a sad sad revelation. Black lives matter.
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