Report: Darren Wilson’s Key Witness Lied, Was Nowhere Near The Shooting
A crucial witness in the grand jury on whether to indict Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson, wasn’t truthful. What we’re saying here is, she’s a big fat liar. Her story was fabricated.
With a trail of dubious postings on social media and documented lies previously told to the police, one has to wonder why they put her on the stand.
“Witness 40,” identified as 45-year-old Sandra McElroy, has a documented history of racist remarks, criminal behavior, and mental illness, Gawker reports.
However, unlike Dorian Johnson, “Witness 40” was nowhere near Canfield Drive on the Saturday afternoon Brown was shot to death.
The Smoking Gun reports:
…McElroy did not provide police with a contemporaneous account of the Brown-Wilson confrontation, which she claimed to have watched unfold in front of her as she stood on a nearby sidewalk smoking a cigarette.
Instead, McElroy (seen at left) waited four weeks after the shooting to contact cops. By the time she gave St. Louis police a statement on September 11, a general outline of Wilson’s version of the shooting had already appeared in the press. McElroy’s account of the confrontation dovetailed with Wilson’s reported recollection of the incident.
In the weeks after Brown’s shooting–but before she contacted police–McElroy used her Facebook account to comment on the case. On August 15, she “liked’ a Facebook comment reporting that Johnson had admitted that he and Brown stole cigars before the confrontation with Wilson. On August 17, a Facebook commenter wrote that Johnson and others should be arrested for inciting riots and giving false statements to police in connection with their claims that Brown had his hands up when shot by Wilson. “The report and autopsy are in so YES they were false,” McElroy wrote of the “hands-up” claims. This appears to be an odd comment from someone who claims to have been present during the shooting. In response to the posting of a news report about a rally in support of Wilson, McElroy wrote on August 17, “Prayers, support God Bless Officer Wilson.”
She commented on a September 12 story which reported that Ferguson city officials had yet to meet with Brown’s family, “But haven’t you heard the news, There great great great grandpa may or may not have been owned by one of our great great great grandpas 200 yrs ago.”
On September 13th, she posted a graphic on a pro-Wilson Facebook page which included Brown laying dead in the street.
The words typed over the image read, “Michael Brown already received justice. So please, stop asking for it.”
McElroy provided the federal investigators with an account that neatly tracked with Wilson’s version of the fatal confrontation. She claimed to have seen Brown and Johnson walking in the street before Wilson encountered them while seated in his patrol car. She said that the duo shoved the cruiser’s door closed as Wilson sought to exit the vehicle, then watched as Brown leaned into the car and began raining punches on the cop. McElroy claimed that she heard gunfire from inside the car, which prompted Brown and Johnson to speed off. As Brown ran, McElroy said, he pulled up his sagging pants, from which “his rear end was hanging out.”
But instead of continuing to flee, Brown stopped and turned around to face Wilson, McElroy said. The unarmed teenager, she recalled, gave Wilson a “What are you going to do about it look,” and then “bent down in a football position…and began to charge at the officer.” Brown, she added, “looked like he was on something.” As Brown rushed Wilson, McElroy said, the cop began firing. The “grunting” teenager, McElroy recalled, was hit with a volley of shots, the last of which drove Brown “face first” into the roadway.
“I know what I seen,” she told investigators who were skeptical of her allegations. “I know you don’t believe me.”
When asked what she was doing in Ferguson–which is about 30 miles north of her home–McElroy explained that she was planning to “pop in” on a former high school classmate she had not seen in 26 years. Saddled with an incorrect address and no cell phone, McElroy claimed that she pulled over to smoke a cigarette and seek directions from a black man standing under a tree. In short order, the violent confrontation between Brown and Wilson purportedly played out in front of McElroy.
Despite an abundance of red flags, state prosecutors put McElroy in front of the Ferguson grand jury the day after her meeting with the federal officials. After the 12-member panel listened to a tape of her interview conducted at the FBI office, McElroy appeared and, under oath, regaled the jurors with her eyewitness claims.
According to her grand jury testimony, she was diagnosed as bipolar when she was 16, but she has not taken her meds for for about 25 years.
She’s a piece of work.
McElroy’s YouTube page is also filled with a variety of anti-Barack Obama videos, including a clip purporting to show Michelle Obama admitting that the president was born in Kenya. Over the past year, McElroy has subscribed to three channels devoted to mystery and real crime shows, as well as a “We Are Darren Wilson” video channel.
McElroy has rarely used her Twitter account, though she did post a message in late-October in response to a news report that several Ferguson drug cases had to be dropped because Darren Wilson failed to show up for court hearings. “drug thug will be arrested again who cares,” wrote McElroy.
Her inaugural tweet came in October 2013 in reply to an Obama swipe posted by Senator Ted Cruz. “Keep fighting, I am a government employee on furlough and I say keep it shut down. NO obama care please don’t stop,” McElroy tweeted to the Texas Republican.
In her journal, McElroy wrote in the days after Michael Brown’s killing, “Well Im gonna take my random drive to Florisant. Need to understand the Black race better so I stop calling Blacks Niggers and Start calling them People.”
Its not the first time she’s lied in court.
McElroy’s devotion to the truth—lacking during her appearances before the Ferguson grand jury—was also absent in early-2007 when she fabricated a bizarre story in the wake of the rescue of Shawn Hornbeck, a St. Louis boy who had been held captive for more than four years by Michael Devlin, a resident of Kirkwood, a city just outside St. Louis.
McElroy, who also lived in Kirkwood, told KMOV-TV that she had known Devlin for 20 years. She also claimed to have gone to the police months after the child’s October 2002 disappearance to report that she had seen Devlin with Hornbeck. The police, McElroy said, checked out her tip and determined that the boy with Devlin was not Hornbeck.
In the face of McElroy’s allegations, the Kirkwood Police Department fired back at her. Cops reported that they investigated her claim and determined that “we have no record of any contact with Mrs. McElroy in regards to Shawn Hornbeck.” The police statement concluded, “We have found that this story is a complete fabrication.”
The Smoking Gun reached out to McElroy for comment several times to no avail.
Check out The Smoking Gun’s detailed report here.
H/T: LL’s Mod God @Mea_Mark with thanks.
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FrankenPC . December 16th, 2014 at 16:33
What does this mean? Does it mean the Grand Jury can be performed again? How does that work?
tiredoftea December 16th, 2014 at 16:52
A Federal grand jury can be called. Another county grand jury can be called by state and county officials. No jeopardy has attached to Wilson.
FrankenPC . December 16th, 2014 at 17:01
So, to get this to actually work, we’d probably need to threaten the state and county officials who called the first one with collusion. Or, convince the Fed AG to call one?
tiredoftea December 16th, 2014 at 17:03
I don’t know about threaten, but clearly the pressure of continuing local and national protests, coupled to the federal civil rights investigation might be enough to call another grand jury.
FrankenPC . December 16th, 2014 at 17:07
Well, legally threaten. Ethics violations are happening all over the damn place.
tiredoftea December 16th, 2014 at 17:26
OK, I’m with you, there!
whatthe46 December 16th, 2014 at 18:54
HA HA!!
FrankenPC . December 16th, 2014 at 18:59
I was practically laughing as I wrote that FYI.
FrankenPC . December 16th, 2014 at 17:33
What does this mean? Does it mean the Grand Jury can be performed again? How does that work?
tiredoftea December 16th, 2014 at 17:52
A Federal grand jury can be called. Another county grand jury can be called by state and county officials. No jeopardy has attached to Wilson.
FrankenPC . December 16th, 2014 at 18:01
So, to get this to actually work, we’d probably need to threaten the state and county officials who called the first one with collusion. Or, convince the Fed AG to call one?
tiredoftea December 16th, 2014 at 18:03
I don’t know about threaten, but clearly the pressure of continuing local and national protests, coupled to the federal civil rights investigation might be enough to call another grand jury.
FrankenPC . December 16th, 2014 at 18:07
Well, legally threaten. Ethics violations are happening all over the damn place.
tiredoftea December 16th, 2014 at 18:26
OK, I’m with you, there!
whatthe46 December 16th, 2014 at 19:54
HA HA!!
FrankenPC . December 16th, 2014 at 19:59
I was practically laughing as I wrote that FYI.
rejectrepublicanlies December 16th, 2014 at 16:34
What’s just as sickening is that FACEBOOK allowed an image of a dead body and other racist comments to be posted on their pages. They have strict guidelines prohibiting hate speech. They also prohibit images of corpses, violence, body parts, etc. Right Wingers are violent and unstable.
rejectrepublicanlies December 16th, 2014 at 17:34
What’s just as sickening is that FACEBOOK allowed an image of a dead body and other racist comments to be posted on their pages. They have strict guidelines prohibiting hate speech. They also prohibit images of corpses, violence, body parts, etc. Right Wingers are violent and unstable.
AAASuperPatriot December 16th, 2014 at 16:43
This is why there needed to be a trial. A good defence lawyer would have debunked her.
And she needs to be charged.
Hirightnow December 16th, 2014 at 17:28
Daniel?
whatthe46 December 16th, 2014 at 18:53
but, the defense attorney would have put her on the stand since she’s siding with them, its the prosecutor, who, knowing all the evidence and the fact that her account wouldn’t hold water is the one who would have deunked her statements. right? why put a defense witness before a GJ when all you need is probable cause. her lying acct only favored the defense not the prosecutor.
AAASuperPatriot December 16th, 2014 at 17:43
This is why there needed to be a trial. A good defence lawyer would have debunked her.
And she needs to be charged.
Hirightnow December 16th, 2014 at 18:28
Daniel?
whatthe46 December 16th, 2014 at 19:53
but, the defense attorney would have put her on the stand since she’s siding with them, its the prosecutor, who, knowing all the evidence and the fact that her account wouldn’t hold water is the one who would have deunked her statements. right? why put a defense witness before a GJ when all you need is probable cause. her lying acct only favored the defense not the prosecutor.
GreatLakeSailor December 16th, 2014 at 17:29
“Witness 40” I thought that was cheap malt liquor they sold at the KwikyMart wedged between the trailer park and the Baptist Church!
Edit: Sales slogan – Mmmm, Testify!
eyelashviper December 16th, 2014 at 17:52
The stuff in a box with a train on the front? Good for starting the BBQ grill…
GreatLakeSailor December 16th, 2014 at 18:03
If I had more motivation, I’d ‘shop-in “witness” in place of “magnum” and add a double-wide and a steeple in the background on the label.
http://www.11points.com/images/40oz/magnum.jpg
GreatLakeSailor December 16th, 2014 at 18:29
“Witness 40” I thought that was cheap malt liquor they sold at the KwikyMart wedged between the trailer park and the Baptist Church!
Edit: Sales slogan – Mmmm, Testify!
eyelashviper December 16th, 2014 at 18:52
The stuff in a box with a train on the front? Good for starting the BBQ grill…
GreatLakeSailor December 16th, 2014 at 19:03
If I had more motivation, I’d ‘shop-in “witness” in place of “magnum” and add a double-wide and a steeple in the background on the label.
http://www.11points.com/images/40oz/magnum.jpg
whatthe46 December 16th, 2014 at 18:49
putting her on was prosecutorial misconduct at its finest. he should be disbarred since he can’t be prosecuted himself. this is a defense witness and should have been on the stand with her lies so that a d.a. prosecuting this case and seeking justice, could tear her ass and non-account to shreads. any defense attorney representing this murderer, who’s worth his fate in gold, would have never put her on and this prosecutor knew it. this is far from over.
whatthe46 December 16th, 2014 at 19:49
putting her on was prosecutorial misconduct at its finest. he should be disbarred since he can’t be prosecuted himself. this is a defense witness and should have been on the stand with her lies so that a d.a. prosecuting this case and seeking justice, could tear her ass and non-account to shreads. any defense attorney representing this murderer, who’s worth his fate in gold, would have never put her on and this prosecutor knew it. this is far from over.
allison1050 December 16th, 2014 at 19:08
The people need to get up off of their collective azz and vote the prosecutor out of office.
mea_mark December 16th, 2014 at 19:12
At this point they need to demand his resignation and the feds need to go after him. At the very least they should be able to get him on prosecutorial misconduct.
whatthe46 December 16th, 2014 at 19:16
he already refused to leave the case, so he won’t resign. but, yes the feds should go after him for misconduct. that’s for damn sure.
Jack E Raynbeau December 16th, 2014 at 23:59
I only get to vote in Utah. I vote that the prosecutor be federally prosecuted.
allison1050 December 16th, 2014 at 20:08
The people need to get up off of their collective azz and vote the prosecutor out of office.
mea_mark December 16th, 2014 at 20:12
At this point they need to demand his resignation and the feds need to go after him. At the very least they should be able to get him on prosecutorial misconduct.
whatthe46 December 16th, 2014 at 20:16
he already refused to leave the case, so he won’t resign. but, yes the feds should go after him for misconduct. that’s for damn sure.
Jack E Raynbeau December 17th, 2014 at 00:59
I only get to vote in Utah. I vote that the prosecutor be federally prosecuted.
granpa.usthai December 16th, 2014 at 19:49
this was the collaborating witness the ‘prosecutor’ had mentioned before the grand jury?
granpa.usthai December 16th, 2014 at 20:49
this was the collaborating witness the ‘prosecutor’ had mentioned before the grand jury?
Sy Colepath December 16th, 2014 at 20:30
Hmmm – She sort of resembles Sarah Palin in a trailer trash kinda way.
tracey marie December 16th, 2014 at 20:50
she is mentally ill, they knew it and used her to further their agenda.
searambler December 16th, 2014 at 22:51
So she’s EXACTLY like Sarah Palin…
Jack E Raynbeau December 17th, 2014 at 00:01
Not exactly. She doesn’t command huge fees to speak. Not yet.
trees December 21st, 2014 at 17:30
Agenda? Please elaborate, explain this “agenda”
tracey marie December 21st, 2014 at 19:39
no
Sy Colepath December 16th, 2014 at 21:30
Hmmm – She sort of resembles Sarah Palin in a trailer trash kinda way.
tracey marie December 16th, 2014 at 21:50
she is mentally ill, they knew it and used her to further their agenda.
searambler December 16th, 2014 at 23:51
So she’s EXACTLY like Sarah Palin…
Jack E Raynbeau December 17th, 2014 at 01:01
Not exactly. She doesn’t command huge fees to speak. Not yet.
trees December 21st, 2014 at 18:30
Agenda? Please elaborate, explain this “agenda”
tracey marie December 21st, 2014 at 20:39
no
Foundryman December 16th, 2014 at 20:35
Everyone who think foxnews and hannity will make a retraction and disavow this witness, raise their hands….
(Hannity had her on twice)
Uh Huh…i thought so….nobody!
Foundryman December 16th, 2014 at 21:35
Everyone who think foxnews and hannity will make a retraction and disavow this witness, raise their hands….
(Hannity had her on twice)
Uh Huh…i thought so….nobody!
Kenneth Henderson December 16th, 2014 at 22:12
The saying “The lunatics are running the asylum, while the criminals control the courts” applies in this case.
Kenneth Henderson December 16th, 2014 at 23:12
The saying “The lunatics are running the asylum, while the criminals control the courts” applies in this case.