Transcripts show #DarrenWilson lied to the grand jury

[FBaggins]

10. Yes, that's what the post says. The post is wrong.

Witness testimony very frequently conflicts with reality. Just read through the transcripts and no two of them tell exactly the same story (and not just because of bias). In fact, many conflict directly. That's entirely natural... and it's why hearsay evidence is usually inadmissible.

Yes, if given only the statements of an officer suspected of a crime and his supervisor, we would assume that the officer has more reason to lie and thus we would give more weight to the supervisor's statements re: what he knew at the time (though it wouldn't be proof if that's all we had). However, in this case we also have the recordings of the actual dispatch calls.

So perhaps the supervisor was mistaken... or misheard/misremembered what he was told... or the officer misunderstood and was answering about something else. The specifics of the error are moot, because we know that someone made an error. The transcripts make clear that he was part of the radio conversation where the robbery was reported and was offering to help the two officers who were involved in the search for the suspects.

None of which changes whether he used excessive force (he clearly did - at the very least starting with the point where Brown was running away) or was justified in shooting at all (I don't know).