Witness or Liar?

So the news is, that a new witness has come forward claiming to have seen the infamous "4th man" supposedly involved in the Sean Bell murder. I think he's a liar.

According Mr. Palladino and a lawyer involved in the case, a man walked into the 115th Precinct station house in Queens and said he had seen something important. The man, a worker in the area, described seeing a black man at the shooting scene on Liverpool Street fire a handgun and then run into a building, Mr. Palladino said.

Mr. Palladino said the witness had seen the gunman fire “once, maybe twice” at the police officers.

The problem with this "story" is this:

"He said he heard the clash of the car. He looks up and sees a male black fire one shot, maybe two, and run from the scene, possibly running into a building...

Cops had talked to the man just after the shooting, but he had lied and said he hadn't seen anything, a source said. He told cops yesterday that his Christian conscience nagged him to come forward and tell the truth, sources said...

There also was no evidence that Guzman, 31, Trent Benefield, 23, or Bell, 23, had a gun.

Additionally, all ballistics found at the scene have been traced to police weapons, a source said.

Police were heavily criticized for arresting numerous "suspects" who may have been outside Club Kalua and had information about a fourth man leaving the car.

So this man of Christian Conscience(tm) lied to the police about this 4th man and is not facing obstruction charges? And even if this went to court does ANY prosecutor out there on Queens Blvd. think that this witness will be taken seriously by a jury? Aside from this witness being an admitted liar, his story is completely contradicted by the available evidence. If this 4th man let off two shots then where are those bullets? Are we to believe that the NYPD, in addition to being reckless are also incapable of canvassing an area for bullets? Perhaps they are since they failed to create a dragnet to catch this so called 4th man.

The alternative would be that this 4th man was firing a police weapon. Now that would raise some other questions wouldn't it?

My position as of now, is that this person was produced to taint the grand jury by raising doubt since by my estimates at least two of the officers are in jeopardy, the one who fired the first shot and the officer that shot two clips worth. I hope the grand jury is not fooled and does not think that their job is to determine guilt. They are only to determine whether the charges should go to trial and there is enough evidence to do so.

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