Ferguson and Selective Memory, a Skeptic's View

[Leader of the Banned]

Interesting article. You have to scroll down a bit to get to Michael Shermer's article. Speaking for myself, the Ferguson coverage was enough to add MSNBC to a list of news channels I won't watch. Fox news, of course has been off the table for obvious reasons.

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/14-12-17/#feature

When the documents reviewed by the grand jury were made public, however, it became clear why an indictment was dropped. The eyewitness accounts that would have indicated criminal wrong-doing on the part of the police officer were inconsistent, unreliable, provably wrong, changed over time, and even fabricated.

One woman, for example, reported that there was a second police officer in the passenger seat next to Wilson, a white “middle age or young” man in uniform. Wilson was alone.

Another eyewitness said Wilson shot Brown in the back and then “stood over him and finished him off.” Under oath in front of the grand jury, however, he admitted that he made it up “based on me being where I’m from, and that can be the only assumption that I have.”

If you can't get reliable stories from supposed eye-witnesses, there is no way you are going to get an indictment.