BOOM: Key Witness in Darren Wilson Case Has History of Lying to Police, Mental Illness And Racism

The Smoking Gun released a lengthy report revealing that “Witness 40,” whose testimony convinced a grand jury not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown, completely fabricated her story and has a criminal history marked by mental illness, lying to authorities, and blatant racism.

According to the report, Witness 40 is a 45-year-old woman named Sandra McElroy, and her account that Brown charged at Wilson helped exonerate him. But a glance at her history throws her credibility into doubt: Though diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 16, McElroy told the grand jury she hasn’t taken any medication for her condition in 25 years, and admitted that a car accident in 2001 left her “struggl[ing] with a faulty memory” ever since.

McElroy first reached out to prosecutors nearly four weeks after Brown’s death, and her account closely matched with the account Wilson gave of the shooting — not surprising, considering that in the weeks leading up to her contacting authorities, she posted statements supporting Wilson on her Facebook wall

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The report McElroy gave police matched Wilson’s testimony, which was leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch days before, but federal investigators were suspicious of McElroy’s account: why, for instance, was she in Ferguson, 30 miles north of her home? McElroy claimed that she had planned to drop in on a high school classmate who lived in the neighborhood and got lost, but later changed her story on November 3rd, after she randomly revealed that she kept a daily journal

Read the whole thing: http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-key-witness-in-darren-wilson-case-has-history-of-lying-to-police/