Racist lies helped non-indictment of Michael Brown’s killer

This video is called White construction workers witness Mike Brown being shot with hands up.

This blog post is especially for politically right-wing readers of my blog. If they think that in reporting on Michael Brown’s death and issues relating to that, I have quoted too much from the so-called ‘liberal media‘; then here come quotes from a newspaper on their own side in the political spectrum.

They are from the conservative Daily Mail in Britain. A paper with often, a sorry history of xenophobia, of attacks on Nelson Mandela, etc.

However, here they write about what helped the killer of Michael Brown to a non-indictment:

Witness who testified before grand jury that she saw Michael Brown charge Officer Darren Wilson is revealed to be ‘lying racist bipolar felon’

St. Louis resident Sandra McElroy, 45, testified before a Missouri grand jury that she saw Michael Brown charge at Ferguson officer Darren Wilson

As ‘Witness 40’ she twice appeared before the grand jury before her testimony was eventually discounted

During her second testimony she changed her reason for being at the scene and admitted she had included details she had read online

According to her grand jury testimony, the divorced mother-of-five was diagnosed as bipolar at 16, but hasn’t taken medication for 25 years

She was arrested in 2007 on two felony bad check charges for which she received a suspended sentence

In 2007 she approached the cops claiming to have information about a case that was later dismissed as a ‘complete fabrication’

On social media platforms such as YouTube, McElroy was found to have a history of posting racist comments

By David Mccormack for MailOnline

Published: 21:15 GMT, 15 December 2014 | Updated: 23:38 GMT, 15 December 2014

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Prosecutors argued that McElroy had fabricated the entire incident and was not even at the scene the day of the shooting – although she maintained she was. …

On social media platforms such as YouTube, the website claims McElroy was found to have a history of posting racist comments.

On her YouTube page – shared with one of her daughters – she had posted a racial charged comment next to a clip about the disappearance of a white woman who had a baby with a black man.

‘See what happens when you bed down with a monkey have ape babies and party with them,’ she commented.

On another clip about the sentencing of two black women for murder, she had written, ‘put them monkeys in a cage.’

McElroy also used social media to comment on the Brown shooting and on September 13, she had visited a pro-Wilson Facebook page and posted a graphic that included a photo of Brown lying dead in the street.

‘Michael Brown already received justice. So please, stop asking for it,’ read the text beside the image.

It was just two days before that post – and some four weeks after the Brown shooting – that McElroy first approached the police with her claims that she had been witness to it.