Grand jury documents uncovers lax Police procedures in Ferguson
The grand jury testimony in the Darren Wilson case reveals
some shockingly lax procedures by the Ferguson
and St. Louis County police departments: Unorthodox
Police Procedures Emerge in Grand Jury Documents, reports LGF.
When Ferguson ,
Mo. , police officer Darren Wilson
left the scene of the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the officer
returned to the police station unescorted, washed blood off his hands and
placed his recently fired pistol into an evidence bag himself.
Such seemingly unorthodox forensic practices emerged from
the voluminous testimony released in the aftermath of a grand jury decision
Monday night not to indict
The transcript showed that local officers who interviewed Wilson immediately after
the shooting did not tape the conversations and sometimes conducted them with
other police personnel present. An investigator with the St. Louis County
Medical Examiner’s office testified that he opted not to take measurements at
the crime scene.
“I got there, it was
self-explanatory what happened,” said the investigator, whose name was not
released, in his grand jury testimony. “Somebody shot somebody. There was no question
as to any distances or anything of that nature at the time I was there.”
The investigator, described as a 25-year veteran, did not
take his own photographs at the scene of the shooting because his camera
battery was dead, he said.
Perhaps the most outrageous thing: police never tested Wilson ’s gun for Michael
Brown’s fingerprints. Since one of the main points of Wilson ’s story was that Brown grabbed his
gun, why wasn’t this done?
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