Feguson awaits a decision from the grand jury- The Rashomon effect

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/10/us/ferguson-michael-brown-shooting/

People are afraid in Ferguson, gun sales are soaring.

From above link

"The increase in gun sales reaches across racial and ethnic lines, he says.

"A lot of black people coming in saying they are afraid of the hooliganism," he says.

"But not all of Ferguson is hooliganish. The media portrays us that way. If the world can just see this is one little street in Ferguson going crazy, they'd understand that we're not just one big burning city."

At Metro Shooting Range in nearby Bridgeton, Missouri, manager John Stephenson says gun sales are up 40 to 50% as of last week.

And lots of folks are coming in to the gun range for training, which he says is important for new gun owners.

"Every time that door opens, we're seeing new faces," Stephenson says. Many new customers tell him they're concerned about the response to the grand jury decision."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/10/ferguson-shooting-witnesses/15423143/

Partial from above seems to condemn the police officer

"The comments from the workers differ from those made by St. Louis County Police Chief Joe Belmar, who said Brown physically assaulted Wilson and reached for Wilson's gun. Some witnesses also have said Brown assaulted the officer.
Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the family of Michael Brown, said the newly released video of witnesses should be presented to the grand jury as crucial evidence.
"The video is of paramount significance, not just because these two construction workers are not Ferguson residents, not because these two construction workers are Caucasian, but because this is a contemporaneous recording of their immediate reactions after what they just witnessed," Crump told USA TODAY. "It captures their raw emotions and their outrage over what they just witnessed. It is like you are watching a live play by play of what just happened."
Crump said it is also important to note that the construction workers seem to be unaware that they are being recorded because they are filmed from behind.
"Nobody can say they have been influenced by anything, any media, or anything like that," Crump said. "And it corroborates what everybody is saying. That he put his hands up. That he was running away and the police kept shooting as he was running away. And that the police kept shooting when he put his hands up."

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 http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/witness-adds-new-perspective-to-ferguson-shooting/article_ab6e1e03-c49a-5c7f-8786-b0e88ec79349.html

"HONEST ACCOUNTS CAN DIFFER

Differences in witness accounts are no surprise to researchers, who even have a name for it: the Rashomon effect. It’s derived from the title of a Japanese movie in which four witnesses’ accounts of a rape and murder differ notably.
“That’s why anyone who wants to put complete faith in his statements is foolish and anyone who wants to completely discount what Dorian Johnson saw, is foolish,” said David Klinger, a University of Missouri-St. Louis criminologist. “It is entirely possible that multiple witnesses will recall different things. That’s why it’s critical to wait and see what all the evidence shows.”
Klinger, who has testified as an expert witness in numerous police shooting cases, recalls one in Houston in which one eyewitness said she saw an officer handcuff a teen, hogtie him and shoot him. Another witness, standing in nearly the same place, testified that the officer handcuffed the teen after he was shot, but the witness did not see him shot again or hogtied. “They’re not lying; they just have different stories,” Klinger said."

This is important....eyewitness accounts can be very different and be very off.
The blog author has experienced this in a Citizen Police Academy course where he and other students simulated a situation which called for firing a gun at a video scenario....while other students watched.
Those who shot had remembrances of the scenario action that usually almost always differed from what the other students related. And the other students often differed in relating what they remembered to have happened.

The prisons are filled with people who were convicted on inaccuracies.

The mission of this blog is to change our system which has proven to be totally inadequate towards "Justice".

The author posits a treatment plan here; http://ourcriminaljusticesystem.blogspot.com/2014/10/paper-required-for-graduate-degree-in.html    The treatment plan is the last section of the paper, skip the degree mandated discussion on drugs as the heart of the matter is near the end.