Ferguson & St. Louis, MO -- Deaths and Protests

[HairOfTheDog]

Let me ask you a question, and please answer it honestly (so I can commend you for your integrity later).

Do you believe that the black Fergunson eyewitnesses were identified? In other words, do you think those people were known throughout the black community?

Yes, I believe that those witnesses (black and white ones) who were identified in the media early on were known to all.

However, those witnesses (black and white ones) who testified in the secret grand jury proceedings and had not done media interviews would not have been known to the public.

If so, with the violence, rioting, race-incitement that's come with this case, don't you think those witnesses were tampered with by the inciters, to get them to change, alter or modify their testimony?

The FBI and DOJ were all over Ferguson conducting separate but related investigations at the time. IMO, their presence would have made if difficult for local police to try to get witnesses to mold their testimony in LE's favor. Likewise, I think it would have been difficult for witnesses to nefariously modify their accounts in Brown's favor; the witnesses were likely being interviewed by skilled interrogators from different agencies.

If you don't believe that, then I can understand you being upset that I'd dare compliment those witnesses for being truthful.

I'm not upset with you, MS. I'm fucking around you with for posting what I considered a presumptuous, condescending, dufus remark.

If you DO believe there could've been tampering, then you should be able to undersand what I was saying.

I understand what you're saying, I just think it's a very narrow perspective. Don't you think non-black witnesses might face the same types of pressure? Don't you think the local cops could apply pressure in the opposite direction, if coercion was going down in Ferguson? Why should blacks get special commendation for telling the truth under those circumstances unless you feel that blacks are more pliable or less honest? I don't think you hear what I'm saying, but that's just the way it is.