Ferguson Presentations

In the Ferguson grand jury presentations, most people are presenting on eyewitnesses that witnessed the shooting of Michael Brown.  It seems that all of the eyewitnesses have different accounts of what happened at the scene.  After reading my volume I thought that there should have been a trial without a  doubt.  Also, the first couple presentations I watched I could not believe that there was not a trial.  As the presentations went on though, I realized that all of the "eyewitnesses" were completely different stories.  These different stories are the reason that they did not have a trial in my opinion.  Obviously people could have different perspectives on what happened at the scene of the crime based on their viewpoint or if they had witnessed the entire event.  The problem with the different eyewitnesses though were that their stories contradicted each others'.  I think that one of the contributors to this issue is the scene after the shooting with a huge crowd in the street giving their view on the story.  The police officers stories were all very similar making it seem that they were more reliable sources because all of their stories were along the same lines as one another.  Most of the eyewitnesses that testified in the grand jury were also African-American.  As we learned in the documentary we watched in the beginning of the school year, in Ferguson the police Department and African-American residents were not on the best terms.  This caused most of the eyewitnesses to have biases towards Officer Wilson.  With all of the media coverage and people having different stories probably made each eyewitness question what they saw and thus having too many inconsistencies in the story.  If the grand jury did not have so many people testify and ask what they saw I think that there would have been a greater chance of a trial.