JustAFan
The Adebayo Akinfenwa of football photoshoppers
Yes but if you claim to want to wait for the investigation but then jump to a conclusion based on a report of an eyewitness who you know nothing at all about, well don't be surprised if on a discussion board the inconsistency gets pointed out. You are willing to automatically accept what she says to say it sounds like the police have a flimsy excuse, but that acceptance is based on what? What do you know about her? Does her story fit with other evidence or does it contradict it?Im not saying 'Hey look the police did bad!', and won't pass judgement until we know a lot more, but we can still talk about it. This being an internet discussion board and all.
The full report will come out in due time, including I am sure a look into the witness statement, of which we only have what the BBC is reporting, so we do not even know if we have the full story on that yet or how reliable a witness she will turn out to be. I think it was with the Michael Brown killing that many of the eyewitnesses turned out to be very unreliable, claiming to have seen things they could not have possibly seen, including some who it turned out were blocks away. Eyewitness testimony is actually often the least reliable when it comes to determining what actually happened. In this case the witness may prove extremely reliable and be a key component in the eventual outcome or she may not.