As part of the document release of witness testimony to the Saint Louis Grand Jury one of the more absurd media constructs takes the spotlight.

You will recall in late August and early September, CNN began broadcasting “explosive evidence” in the Mike Brown shooting.  Their chosen narrative surrounded a video they “obtained” showing two construction workers who were in the Canfield Greens Apartment complex on the day of the shooting.

CNN framed the construction workers as eye-witnesses proof positive for the “Hands Up” narrative.  However, now the truth comes out.
As detailed in part of a Saint Louis Post-Dispatch report today the insufferable disconnect from reality surfaces:

[…]  A landscape worker who lives in Jefferson County gave grand jurors one of the oddest accounts of the moments leading up to Brown’s death. The man had appeared in widely broadcast video in which he is wearing a pink shirt and gesturing to police that Brown’s hands were up.

The man said he encountered Brown that morning. He was trying to cut through some tree roots and cursing at the difficulties of the job. Brown told him that Jesus would help him with his anger problem.

A few minutes later, the man said, he heard gunshots. He looked up and saw Brown running. He said three officers were chasing Brown, but only one of them was shooting. Brown appeared to have been shot as he fled, the worker said. Then Brown turned around, put his hands up and started yelling “OK.”

“And within a couple of seconds the three officers came up, and one just pulled up and shot him,” the worker said.

No other witness described three officers present at the shooting. (link)

Now you can see how ridiculous the entire narrative of the construction worker witnesses were. But hey, CNN couldn’t let those pesky facts get in the way of their opportunity to gain a broadcast audience.  They ran with this ridiculous story for weeks on their continuous news cycle coverage of the Mike Brown shooting. (more…)

RUSH LIMBAUGH – “The grand jury system, I was kind of surprised. I know the legal beagles that I’ve listened to, a lot of legal people for whom I have great respect said, Rush, this is a slam dunk. There is, we’ve seen the evidence, as much as we’ve seen and as much as we’ve heard about, the testimony, there’s no way this cop gets indicted.
And I said yeah but that’s not the way things happen in the country anymore. Everybody, episodes like this need sacrificial lambs and everybody’s going to be focused on keeping the peace and everybody’s going to be focused on, you know, just make the problem go away.
So I was surprised, grand jury system worked, despite enormous pressures exerted by the president’s representative, Eric Holder, the attorney general. A police officer was not indicted and the president let it be known last night that if some people don’t think justice was done, he understands. (more…)

By now almost everyone has digested the general gist of what’s been going on in and around Ferguson Missouri for the past 36 hours… or have you?
If, like most of America, you are busy getting those final adornments ready for the Thanksgiving Holiday, you might have only briefly digested the media version of events.
So let’s take a moment to contrast the MSM delivery against the reality of actually lays afore us. We start with the Mike Brown family response to the Grand Jury decision: (Warning Strong Language)

But the downplayed angle of the family screaming for violence pales in comparison to the next video. (more…)

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Saint Louis Public Radio is uploading the evidence released from Saint Louis Prosecutors. You can find the uploads HERE

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Let’s Crowdsource and see if we can find the details. Use the comment links to summarize and drop direct links to information you find valuable.  Tomorrow we’ll assemble a summary and annotation based on feedback in the three research threads.

HERE’S ANOTHER LINK FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE – HERE

Please keep this thread isolated to only discussion of Grand Jury Evidence.

• Please provide links in your comment to the data you are analyzing.
• Please note page number in your comment when reviewing large documents.

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According to Saint Louis Prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, the Grand Jury was given ALL the evidence, including all of the witness statements during their investigative inquiry.
McCulloch went out of his way to state local investigators and the FBI shared ALL of their information/evidence during their investigation into the Mike Brown shooting.
Additionally, McCulloch went one step further and stated that ALL of the witness statements, recorded and transcribed, would be open for media review.

OK, so where’s this one? (more…)

DeAndre Joshua, 20, fits the social profile of an eye-witness who gave a police/FBI statement and testified before the Grand Jury in the Mike Brown shooting case.   He was an employed black male, with no history of drug use or illicit behavior. He was also a friend of Dorian Johnson who is currently under protection.

Obviously, as you can see, Dorian is freaking out right now.  

Several of the eye-witnesses, who gave honest testimony to the Grand Jury, were, according to their own statements, warned immediately after the shooting to keep their mouths shut.   All of the eye-witnesses were African American.  If you read the reports the sense of fear about speaking the truth is overwhelming.  

Many, if not all, of the witness statements outlined in police reports, FBI reports, and later in Grand Jury testimony -who testified to the factual events as outlined by officer Wilson, and whose testimony fit the physical and forensic evidence- were threatened by the local Canfield Greens community.

(Via Daily Mail) A man has died during the Ferguson riots just yards from where Michael Brown was shot dead.  Residents on Canfield Drive said that DeAndre Joshua, 20, was shot whilst in his car though police at the scene refused to confirm any details.

DeAndre’s grandmother Renita Towns said that ‘somebody killed him’ during the carnage. (more…)

I didn’t see the press conference, was McSpadden and Louis Head there to chant “burn this bitch down” again?
SAINT LOUIS – MSNBC host Al Sharpton slammed Wednesday the prosecution’s handling of the grand jury. “I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,” he said during a Brown family press conference.

Sharpton described the prosecution’s decision to release the grand jury’s decision at 8 pm as “irresponsible” and “provocative.”
He also said that he and other civil rights leaders have called an emergency meeting in Washington, D.C. next week to discuss boycotts, marches and demonstrations.
Sharpton likened the follow-up to the case to Rodney King.
“Before you think this is over, remember what happened in Rodney King,” he said, vowing not to give up in the face of a defeat in the legal system.  (read more)

Darren Wilson today, just like George Zimmerman in 2012, doesn’t understand this is not a legal case – it’s a political case using the legal system….

You might be aware of our prior position on this.   It’s understandable when facing a process you cannot understand to reconcile your location based on prior reference points.  Darren Wilson has never been inside the political machine, he holds no frame of reference and just like Zimmerman he made a huge mistake. (more…)

Despite the prior claims by Democrat Governor Nixon, Democrat Chief Executive Dooley and Democrat Saint Louis Mayor Slay, the surrounding towns of Ferguson and Dellwood erupted in flames. Arson and looting were widespread and destructive.  Apparently the “unified command” was neither “unified” nor in “command”.

Democrat Mayor James Knowles says he was begging for help. His pleas were unanswered.

In the meantime the “protest leadership” were complaining for the past week that the National Guard was called up for duty. Now those same voices are screaming mad that the National Guard was not activated and protecting their local businesses as they were looted and burned.

Before getting to the Dorian Johnson aspect I just want to highlight something Prosecutor McCulloch stated in his press conference:

The Grand Jury watched all the media interviews of witnesses prior to hearing their ‘in person’ grand jury testimony.

In my opinion this simple fact is what was so devastating to Dorian Johnson, Piaget Crenshaw and Tiffany Mitchell.  They simply lied to the media.  This is also why the media is standing jaw agape trying to reconcile the Grand Jury outcome.
One of the more interesting elements noted by the physical evidence, and DNA testing, relates to confirming the Dorian Johnson bracelet we first identified back in August.
When Dorian was aiding Mike Brown robbing the Liquor Mart, we noted the CCTV showed him with a yellow or gold bracelet on his right wrist.

Later, as we identified him in interviews, that bracelet was missing.  We scoured through video, published media pictures, and we found it at the car. (more…)