If the police claim they have witnesses against you, should you try to explain your side of the story? Now, I don't know if police really truly have an eyewitness that saw you commit a crime. They might have, but most likely they're lying to you because they're allowed to lie to you. What they're really trying to do is trick you into talking to them. It puts fear inside of you and you want to try to convince them that the witnesses are wrong when they may never have one in the first