1. Surveillance video showed that shortly before the confrontation, 18-year-old Brown stole cigarillos from a convenience store and shoved a clerk who tried to stop him.
2. The autopsy report showed that Brown had marijuana in his system when he died.
3. Officer Wilson, driving to the call of a medical emergency, first encountered Brown walking in the middle of a street and told Brown and his friend to walk on the sidewalk. Brown responded with an expletive.
4. Wilson chose to confront Brown only after he saw the cigarillos in his hand and recalled the radio report of a robbery at the convenience store.
5. Wilson said when he tried to open his car door, Brown slammed it back shut, then punched Wilson in the face.
6. Fearing another punch could knock him out, Wilson drew his gun, he told the grand jury, and Brown grabbed the gun, saying "you are too much of a pussy to shoot me."
7. An African-American witness confirmed that Brown and Wilson appeared to be "arm-wrestling" by the car.
8. Another witness saw Brown leaning through the car's window and said "some sort of confrontation was taking place."
9. After Wilson fired a shot that struck Brown's hand, Brown fled and Wilson gave chase. Brown suddenly stopped. An unidentified witness told the grand jury that 6-foot-4, 292-pound Brown charged at Wilson with his head down. Wilson said Brown put his hand under the waistband of his pants as he continued toward Wilson. That's when Wilson fired.
10. A witness testified that Brown never raised his hands.
11. Gunpowder found on the wound on Brown's hand indicated his hand was close to the gun when it fired. According to a report, the hand wound showed foreign matter "consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm."
12. Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist who reviewed the autopsy for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, said the gunpowder "supports the fact that this guy is reaching for the gun, if he has particulate matter in the wound."
13. Wilson said Brown was physically uncontrollable and "for lack of a better word, crazy." He said that during the confrontation, he was thinking: "He's gonna kill me. How do I survive?" Legal experts say police officers typically have wide latitude to use deadly force when they feel their safety is threatened.
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For those who think Michael Brown didn't get just, they are irrational.
ReplyDeleteI meant "justice." dang.
DeleteThanks and I figured as much.
DeleteBrain dead liberals or commies.
ReplyDeleteMichael Brown had been a person of interest in a murder case - closed in his juvenile records
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteLive like a thug die like one. Only Brown is responsible for his actions.
ReplyDelete100%.
DeleteRemember how all the white people looted and rioted after the OJ Simpson verdict? ...neither do I.
ReplyDelete:)
Delete6 9 11 12 13 I heard within 24 hours of the verdict for no indictment when they released the details of the testimony.
ReplyDeleteAll the others, I have to say, I had already heard through either Fox or Infowars.
I guess that's a good thing, but it defeats the point of his post I guess.
Thanks.
Delete50+ years of civil rights, equall rights, hundreds of billions in handouts, everbody pandering to their every whim, and this is where they have ended up. When they were afraid, they worked, went to church and had respect for others and themselves. The more they have been given the more they have devolved. Sad, sad, sad. :(
ReplyDeleteThe more they have been given the more they have devolved.
DeleteTerrible, terrible, terrible as my father would say.