The physical evidence backed up the officers testimony.
Enough of this foolishness already
No, it really didn't.
In fact, the forensic evidence was tainted. They took no photographs of Brown's dead body at the scene. They took no pictures of Wilson's bloody hands, not did they secure his weapon and vehicle at the scene. INstead, they let him drive his vehicle and turn in his gun at police HQ.
Now, yeah, i don't expect a small police department of 53 people to go full CSI on a scene, but when they do Barney-Fife the investigation, don't come back to me and tell me that they did a bang up job.
Ferguson testimony shows inconsistencies unorthodox forensic practices - Chicago Tribune
When Ferguson, Missouri, 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 Wilson.
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.
In the extended interviews, prosecutors do not come across as particularly aggressive or curious. But they do question police procedures on a couple of occasions, including the failure by Ferguson and St. Louis County investigators to tape their interviews with the officer after the shooting.
Why not tape these answers? a detective with St. Louis County was asked. "It is just common practice that we do not," the detective said.
Prosecutors also asked why Wilson was permitted to handle evidence in the case himself. "He had informed me that after he responded to the police station, he had packaged his weapon and then he directed my attention to an evidence envelope,'' said the St. Louis County detective. Is it customary for the person who was involved in such an incident "to handle and package their own gun as evidence?" the detective was asked.