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Michael Brown autopsy: No signs of struggle in fatal shooting
la times ^ | 8-18-2014 | MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE, MATT PEARCE

Posted on 08/18/2014 10:13:52 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

A preliminary autopsy commissioned by the family of Michael Brown suggests that there was no sign of a struggle in his death, and that all but one of at least six gunshot wounds in his body were likely survivable, according to Dr. Michael Baden, a renowned New York forensic pathologist who performed a private autopsy after a Ferguson, Mo., police officer killed the unarmed, black 18-year-old.

Baden said in his preliminary autopsy that he believes Brown would not have been able to survive the bullet that hit at the top of his head and traveled through his brain.

Appearing Monday before reporters in the sanctuary of the Greater St. Mark Family Church in St. Louis, Baden and three of the family’s attorneys went through the diagram of Brown’s wounds that was released with the autopsy.

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To: Citizen Zed

What they left out: none of the shots was in the back as claimed, thus meaning the outrage and rioting has been over nothing but a punk who got what he was looking for.
(See his “rap” lyrics for clarity on what he was looking for.)


21 posted on 08/18/2014 10:28:13 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Citizen Zed
> Baden said in his preliminary autopsy that he believes Brown would not have been able to survive the bullet that hit at the top of his head and traveled through his brain.

Why not?

22 posted on 08/18/2014 10:28:30 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Cold Heat

OK thanks.


23 posted on 08/18/2014 10:28:32 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ealgeone
"Sure looks like a case of self defense for the officer."

You sure would think so, but even here on FR their are plenty of FReepers with ropes in their hands for Officer Wilson.
24 posted on 08/18/2014 10:28:33 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Steve_Seattle
The autopsy would only show signs of a struggle if the officer had inflicted some sort of injury during the struggle

The six shots would be the injury the officer inflicted during the encounter.

25 posted on 08/18/2014 10:28:49 AM PDT by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: Citizen Zed

the case could be made that the officer did not try to kill him by his first four shots to the arm and that it was only when he kept coming that he feared for his life and aimed at his head


26 posted on 08/18/2014 10:29:29 AM PDT by jrd
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To: Sir Napsalot

Brown will not vote straight Dems EVER again?


You must not know how dems vote.


27 posted on 08/18/2014 10:30:16 AM PDT by boycott
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To: ealgeone

really? i read they were all at a distance. nothing about 2 feet.


28 posted on 08/18/2014 10:30:28 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

“So how many autopsy’s are going to be done before we get the facts?”....

Three, Holder will have the body cremated immediately following this last one.


29 posted on 08/18/2014 10:31:18 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: ealgeone
ealgeone:" Baden's report also notes the shots could have from within 2 feet. "

If fired within 2 feet , there should also be 'powder burns' accompanying the entrance wound.
Autopsy might also show bruises on knuckles from the assault on the cop while he was in his car , or,
'St. Michael' had "hip-checked" the door , thus causeing a head injury to to police officer.
Also , understand that the police officer had just been assaulted in his car , alledgedly unprovoked , and was attempting an arrest of the 'perp' .

30 posted on 08/18/2014 10:31:29 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (FUBO; Obungler = The didler CIC)
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To: Citizen Zed
A preliminary autopsy commissioned by the family of Michael Brown and reported in the LA Times. I don't know about anybody else, but I'm sold. /sarc
31 posted on 08/18/2014 10:32:58 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Baden noted that browns clothing, not provided to him, could contain powder traces.


32 posted on 08/18/2014 10:33:39 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Kartographer
You sure would think so, but even here on FR their are plenty of FReepers with ropes in their hands for Officer Wilson.

Myself, I'm just holding Officer Wilson to the same standard he'd apply to everyone else. Meaning that if you or I shot an unarmed person six times and twice in the head then we'd be under arrest and we'd have already been arraigned and looking forward to 'splainin' ourselves in court. Support the cops all you want, but if you were to trade places with Officer Wilson you'd be up sh*t creek without a paddle and you know it.

33 posted on 08/18/2014 10:33:50 AM PDT by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: Citizen Zed

Apparently Officer Wilson cannot say the same. Some reports indicated that his jaw had been broken.


34 posted on 08/18/2014 10:34:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Citizen Zed

The adrenaline in both bodies was pumping because of the struggle in the car.

The fact that the cop pulled the trigger at least six time doesn’t surprise me. The fact that he hit him six times does.

The fact it took six shots to drop an adrenaline pumped man doesn’t surprise me either.


35 posted on 08/18/2014 10:34:36 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Citizen Zed

I guess he wasn’t ‘down wi da shruggle’.


36 posted on 08/18/2014 10:39:24 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Illegals Are Getting Flat Screet TV's....NOT TB Screenings!)
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To: MeganC
"Myself, I'm just holding Officer Wilson to the same standard he'd apply to everyone else. Meaning that if you or I shot an unarmed person six times and twice in the head then we'd be under arrest and we'd have already been arraigned and looking forward to 'splainin' ourselves in court."

You seem to be leaving out any information that would might justify the officer's action, i.e., the claim he was attacked by Brown, who struggled for the gun, etc.
37 posted on 08/18/2014 10:40:23 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Citizen Zed
Highly biased autopsy. No mention of entry/exit directions except this:

"To have a shot that's at a 90-degree angle from the top of his skull to the bottom of his chin, almost vertical, that sounds like an officer standing over him," Gray said.

Or it could be a deranged 300-lb criminal charging the officer with his head down like a football tackle.

38 posted on 08/18/2014 10:41:13 AM PDT by kidd
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39 posted on 08/18/2014 10:41:28 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Citizen Zed

I’m not surprised six shots were fired if he were charging because I would think that that was standard procedure, and depending on how the first few shots hit, he’s still charging.


40 posted on 08/18/2014 10:41:28 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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