Witness Micheal Brady is a problem

[bigdarryl]

Watched him on Lawrence O'Donnell he will not make a good witness for Micheal Brown.

[GP6971]

1. Definitely not. n/t

[elleng]

2. Right, he's not a very good witness

except to confirm that officer shot with no provocation.

[bigdarryl]

5. Nothing about Brown having his hands up in surrender

[Logical]

3. I disagree, the shooting description at the end of the discussion was pure murder! nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. He wouldn't be a witness for Michael Brown

Michael Brown is dead.

[bigdarryl]

7. I'm talking about for his family getting justice

[avebury]

6. Although he is indicating that Michael Brown was at least 25 feet

away from the Officer when the shooter fired the killing volley and no more then 20 feet away when he went down. His testimony does not make a case that the last volley of shots would have been justified.

[HooptieWagon]

12. Brown was over 6' tall.

Just falling down closes the distance by that much.

[avebury]

15. Except the witness on Lawrence O'Donnell's show

tonight stated that Brown was crumpling over. He actually thought that Brown had been shot in the stomach. As he crumpled over, that was when the shooter fired the killing shot(s) to the head. I don't see how the last couple of shots could be deemed justified.

[HooptieWagon]

18. Really?

position of body was laid out flat on stomach. Autopsy said abrasion on face from hitting pavement. How does a dead man get from crumpled up to lying prone?

[valerief]

8. O'Donnell said the raised hands could have occurred when Brady

was moving from bedroom window to front door. Brady didn't dispute that.

[conservaphobe]

9. He seemed genuine to me.

Just not a good storyteller.

I don't think the noise in the background was helping much, either.

[Politicalboi]

10. The only difference between the 2 witnesses is

The first shot, wrestling or slugging, hands up, or hands around his waist. Brown may have had his hands up while the male witness was moving outside, and he missed it.

[Cha]

11. I disagree.. I thought he was a genuine witness reporting what he saw.

[Fred Sanders]

13. Witnesses come in all flavors, the crucible of examination and cross examination will reduce things

to the truth. Media trials have no crucible.

[RagAss]

14. Nothing short of a knife in his hands..

will ever convince me that a gun was needed to stop the threat.
Half the fucking country is ignoring the obvious. Gee...I wonder why?

[napi21]

16. I disagree. He was ON TV! There was a noisy background.

Tell me you wouldn't be nervous in that same situation.

[madville]

17. Too many witnesses can be a bad thing

Because you will have several different versions, even if the differences are small details like distance, which direction he was moving at what stage if the incident, things either party said or yelled, etc.

If you bring ten witnesses up, some with slightly differing stories and some that contradict each over, it seems like it could cast doubt in the jury's mind about what the most factual account is.

[Niceguy1]

19. maybe, maybe not

Fact is we know very very little.