Holder unhappy with leaks in Brown shooting case
by CNN
CNN
Posted on October 22, 2014 at 11:31 PM
Updated today at 11:31 PM
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder is upset at recent leaks from the ongoing state investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of Michael Brown.
Holder on Wednesday told Justice Department lawyers, who are conducting a separate federal inquiry of the shooting and a probe of the Ferguson police department, that he is "exasperated" at the "selective flow of information coming out of Missouri," a Justice official said.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published accounts of testimony presented to a St. Louis County grand jury and the state's autopsy report showing Brown suffered a gunshot wound in a struggle inside the officer's squad car.
The information appears to bolster at least part of the account of Officer Darren Wilson, who has told investigators he fatally shot Brown because he feared for his life.
Holder called the leaks "inappropriate and troubling" because the federal investigation is still ongoing and the grand jury is still convening to hear evidence, the Justice official said. Holder said he is highly suspect of local authorities, the Justice official said, because the autopsy and grand jury testimony leaks are similar to the decision by local police to release surveillance video showing Brown stealing cigars from a convenience store just before the deadly police confrontation.
Holder, at the time, denounced the release of the video as intended to skew perception of the case.
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