In my slides I stuck to information that was given to us in the reading about the second witness and her statements. A simple search on google however on her racist Facebook post popped up many articles which all were published in December of 2014. In those articles we are given her name and we find out that the entire account was indeed fabricated. To double check that these articles were indeed about her I took notes on some quotes that the articles used and found that they matched with those of witness 2 that I talked about in document 15. We are shown some of her comments and her facebook post. Her false account of what had gone down on that fateful day is what these articles believe may have impacted the thoughts of the jury in their decision to not charge officer Wilson with anything. In these articles we are told that she had testified before for another case and that her account was ruled false because of mental condition and she was blatantly racist.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/witness-40-ferguson-grand-jury-racist-liar-report-article-1.2047404
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/justice/ferguson-witnesses-credibility/index.html
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