That's not true in the Ferguson, Mo. case. The Prosecutor's office released ALL evidence in the Michael Brown / Darren Wilson case once that evidence was provided to the Grand Jury, typically on the same day. Further, upon conclusion of the Grand Jury's work, he then released all testimony provided to the Grand Jury.
That was an unusual move, designed to provide transparency to the Grand Jury process and all evidence presented in the case. Anyone could see the evidence presented for themselves, and read the transcripts of the testimony for themselves.
Anyone who cared to read the testimony provided to the grand jury quickly learned that so-called "witnesses" who told the media that Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown in the back crumbled under examination in the Grand Jury. One by one when presented with the forensic evidence that Brown was not shot in the back, they quickly retracted the statements they made to the media out of fear of being prosecuted for perjury in front of the Grand Jury.
That makes the entire "hands up, don't shoot!" meme that's been propagandized in the black community with the cooperation of the lieberal lamestream media A LIE.
IMO, how the Prosecutor's office handled this case was a textbook example of how the Grand Jury process SHOULD WORK.
>>IMO, how the Prosecutor’s office handled this case was a textbook example of how the Grand Jury process SHOULD WORK.<<
I disagree. Grand jury proceedings should remain, for the most part, confidential. Not all cases are open and shut (as this one turned out to be, despite the Left’s proclivity to think otherwise) and releasing all the evidence would in many cases be likely to cast an unwarranted shadow over the accused.
In this case, the way it was handled was probably a good decision because the prosecutor knew that the case shouldn’t go to trial, but he also knew that maintaining secrecy if he took the case to a grand jury was an untenable situation given the national attention to the case.
So his only other option was to make up his mind ahead of time and not bring the case at all, i.e., refuse to prosecute. Obviously, that would have put his head on the chopping block along with Officer Wilson’s without resolving the issue.
What we’ve witnessed is the successful implementation of an ingenious solution to a real mess, a mess created by the Progressive media’s failure to do its duty to the citizenry. Whether the prosecutor came up with the solution, or someone else, whoever it was should be commended.
“Anyone who cared to read the testimony provided to the grand jury quickly learned that so-called “witnesses” who told the media that Officer Wilson shot Michael Brown in the back crumbled under examination in the Grand Jury. One by one when presented with the forensic evidence that Brown was not shot in the back, they quickly retracted the statements they made to the media out of fear of being prosecuted for perjury in front of the Grand Jury.”
I hadn’t read the transcripts of the testimony before the Grand Jury, and I hadn’t heard that the witnesses that had spoken against Officer Wilson “retracted their statements” when they appeared before the Grand Jury. So I decided to check for myself. Unbelievably difficult to sort through the more than a thousand pages of material. I couldn’t find an index anywhere. So I ask for your help. As someone who is familiar with the evidence, could you tell me which witnesses retracted their statements, and could you direct me to where I could find these statements. Thanks.