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Watched interview with TSG reporter. He said it took 2 days to unravel the store of witness 40 where the prosecutor had access to her for weeks. This could blow up a lot of narratives.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236
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 Wilsons indictment, Witness 40s 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 officers version of the August 9 confrontation. The Witness 40 testimony, as Fox News sees it, is proof that the 18-year-old Browns 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.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236