More rioting in the US over a cop shooting a black teenager and probably another in the pipeline. Reading this about all the different stories of what happened one wonders how they can find out the truth about anything:
Michael Brown shootings: This is what prosecutors think happened in Ferguson - Americas - World - The Independent
Possible some are racially biased and inventing things but more likely witnesses are plain unreliable. Went to an identification parade myself after an armed robbery in South London in the late 70s. He was a little bloke, about 5' 6", and, apart from the fact that he looked familiar, he made it quite obvious it was him by glaring angrily. But I had told the police he was about 5' 10" so had to say I wasn't sure. When you are peering over a car at a bloke waving a gun, it's not easy to be accurate.
Makes you wonder how they caught anyone before CCTV and DNA testing.
Michael Brown shootings: This is what prosecutors think happened in Ferguson - Americas - World - The Independent
Possible some are racially biased and inventing things but more likely witnesses are plain unreliable. Went to an identification parade myself after an armed robbery in South London in the late 70s. He was a little bloke, about 5' 6", and, apart from the fact that he looked familiar, he made it quite obvious it was him by glaring angrily. But I had told the police he was about 5' 10" so had to say I wasn't sure. When you are peering over a car at a bloke waving a gun, it's not easy to be accurate.
Makes you wonder how they caught anyone before CCTV and DNA testing.
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