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Originally Posted by PIMking
So witness for cop lied and is a known moron and its a huge deal, main witness for brown lied and known criminal and its no biggie?
Either way police need to stop shooting people. I've been watch COPS on tv lately and just shocked on how they treat people when they know the camera is on them.
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To be fair, it seems a number of witnesses were less than truthful with their evidence at the grand jury proceeding.
But not all "lies" are equal and some are more harmful than others. Here it appears someone avoided legal scrutiny of his potentially illegal conduct on the basis of false testimony. That false testimony wasn't simply a mistake or misdirect about what was that witness saw. Rather, it was completely fabricated evidence - a total fiction - put forth by an explicitly racist individual. The grand jury process is flawed, no doubt, and its use here is suspicious. But if this is the kind of testimony that was provided at the grand jury proceeding, why even bother with it at all?