Police sources tell me more than a dozen witnesses have corroborated cop's version of events in shooting #Ferguson
— Christine Byers (@ChristineDByers) August 19, 2014
The police are collecting witness statements which police, in the normal course of things, would not necessarily publish right away so that the witnesses statements wouldn’t be tainted.
But meanwhile, media ran with Dorian Johnson’s account that Michael Brown was shot in the back, allowing ‘witnesses’ who may or may not have seen anything to piggyback off the erroneous story.
