Ferguson Trial: After an extensive amount of volumes we have now heard from multiple witnesses. While more witnesses help shape the actual, chronological order of actions that occurred during the Michael Brown shooting, a lot of witnesses aren't reliable and have made statements in interviews that are exactly the opposite of other witnesses. This is what makes this case difficult as the jury wants to know whether Wilson had used excessive force or not and if his shooting of Michael Brown was justified. To determine this conclusion it is vital to know if Michael Brown showed signs of surrendering (hands up in the air, yelling for Wilson to stop shooting) or if he displayed a threat to justify deadly force by Wilson (charging at Wilson). However, up to this point the witnesses have been split on how the events occurred. Some will say that Michael Brown had his hands up and was staggering towards the officer and not posing a threat. On the other hand, others claim that they saw him charge Wilson and provided a deadly threat considering his size.
As we will continue to cover the last few volumes it will be interesting to see what the other witnesses claim that happened and what conclusion the jury comes to. There is a lot of misinformation in these interviews as witnesses will change their recollection of events based on talking to others, learning of the autopsy, etc and it will be interesting to see how the jury approaches this case while trying to judge based on the absolute truth.
I agree, the fact that the witnesses are saying different things about the key pieces of the story make it very difficult to make a decision. I think that at this point, even though the witness statements differ, they jury should have decided to put Darren Wilson on trial because at least half of the stories justify it, even if the other half don't.
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