AthenaAwakened, I have read a lot of scientific racist literature, much of which I largely agree with, but none of it claims that blacks on average are innately more likely to tell lies than other racial groups, and there is likewise little to lead me to believe such a thing. There is, however, evidence of the tendency to lie about a limited topic: drug abuse. It came to my attention when it was claimed somewhere on Facebook that blacks are equally likely to use drugs as whites. I looked into it, and I found a counter-argument that the statistic was based on self-reports and assumed racial equality of truth-telling, and a different study found that blacks were far more likely than other races to lie about their own drug abuse, comparing their statements to blood or urine tests (I will hunt down that study tomorrow if interested). It could easily be attributed to the black tendency to distrust white authorities, and not such a good argument for the tendency for blacks to lie about all topics generally, let alone the INNATE tendency to lie generally. It remains possible, but the evidence seems scarce to me at this point. I would attribute the lies among the Ferguson witnesses to an in-group-vs-out-group mentality, as Ferguson is an environment with a common perception (if not a reality) of white police abuse against blacks.
The relevant claim is that Michael Brown was shot as he was falling. Such a witness testimony is the only way that explanation would not be completely ad hoc. Out of that list, there is one such testimony, though it is ambiguous: "and he just went all the way down as the shots hit him." So there is something, not nothing. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
