Although I have been vigilant I haven’t seen any articles or heard much said in the mainstream media about what a reporter from The Smoking Gun revealed about a witness who testified in the shooting death of Michael Brown.  Mr. Brown was killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri after they had a brief scuffle.  I must admit that I expected to read and hear a lot more news on this discovery especially since, based on the story in The Smoking Gun, this witness has proven to be a complete farce.

The witness is Witness No. 40.  This witness played a vital role in the support of Officer Wilson’s version of what happened that fatal day and a key statement made in their version of what happened was quoted repeatedly by Sean Hannity, host of the Fox News Channel show, Hannity.  The problem is that, again based on the story in The Smoking Gun, this witness was not even in Ferguson on the day that the shooting occurred.

This could present a big problem for the prosecutors who presented this case to the grand jury because if they did not know the background of this witness, they should have known it.

According to William Bastone, one of the authors of the article in The Smoking Gun, he was able to find out who this witness is, research their background – which is highly questionable, and write his article in about three days.  He said that since he was able to do this in a matter of days, since the prosecutors had weeks and resources available to them that he did not have, such as subpoena power, they also should have been able to look into this witness’s background.  Had they done this, he said, they would have known that this witness should not have been allowed to testify before the grand jury.

It is not yet clear what this might mean in terms of getting the grand jury’s decision set aside or if Michael Brown’s family will even consider going down that road.  Whatever the family’s decision may be, this case should not be left as is because Michael Brown still has not received justice.  My thoughts are that justice will not have been done until Officer Wilson faces a trial by jury in a court of law and not via a secretive grand jury process.

There are still too many questions left unanswered in this case, especially in light of the dismantling of Witness No. 40, and the race problem that America has and refuses to acknowledge will only be made worse if they are not answered.

What do you think?  I solicit your comments on this and any of the articles on this website.  Remember, this site is meant to bring awareness to us regarding our responsibilities as citizens and voters and to generate reasonable discussion among reasonable people.  We can agree to disagree.

By the way, in the event that you would like to read the story about Witness No. 40 in The Smoking Gun, I provided a link to it immediately following this article.  The title of the story in The Smoking Gun is “Witness 40”: Exposing A Fraud In Ferguson.

Eulus Dennis