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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exactly. His face down position indicates he was moving forward when shot.
I stopped reading right there. Let's wait for the official report from someone that may not be politically motivated.
Have we lost our flippin' minds? (Purely rhetorical question, of course).
I noticed that your wheel is missing this....
Hit so hard in the face that his eye socket is broken and the perp is just a blur.
” Brown would not have been able to survive the bullet that hit at the top of his head and traveled through his brain”
Don’t know why...Sounds like that particular organ was not put to much use.
yeah. I agree...He was not down when that shot was fired.
He would have been on his feet but head lowered and the body angle would have been leaning forward as if in a head first charge or tackle.
I think also that the distance to the officer would have been something like ten to 15 feet...more or less.
Had he been down, the shot would have been to the back or side of the head.
So he had to have been head down, forward leaning and fairly close...
“Baden said his examination suggested that none of the six bullets was fired at point-blank range, but all were fired from at least one to two feet away.”
Nobody knows what “point blank” is any more.
It is strange that all of the bullets that struck the arm did not come out the other side.
Yeah, but both Gabby Giffords and Joe biden are dim dem dumb politicians. Brain damage is a feature not a bug.
Senile Dr. Baden strode there and said one round went in his head, came out his eyeball and re-entered his freakin arm before returning to re-enter his arm again . WTF? Foolish old man
I think we have to realize that the media might be trying to influence the public by deciding how to 'report' Baden's findings.
We are lied to so often by our media that finding the truth is like searching for one particular grain of sand on a 20 mile long beach.
Would the female officer be black or non-black ?
How much is Baden getting paid and who is paying him?
“If a foot isn’t point blank then what is.”
Point blank is the range at which the projectile drops below line-of-sight an equal amount as it rose above line-of-sight. It depends somewhat on the zero point (line of sight intersects with target), but point blank is the range within which vertical miss is defined by a few inches up or down from the line of sight.
For a .223, this can be 200+ yards if the zero is at 100 yards. Less for a handgun.
The antis and “journalists” think it means really really close, when actually it can be within a football field or two.
I want to know about the knuckles on his hands. I realize it’s a rumor, but I heard the cop was treated for a broken eye socket. Regardless, he his face did sustain a beating.
Yep. There are some that hate the police even though they have the thankless job of cruising hellholes like Ferguson. We need all the facts. Could be the police action was perfectly justified OR could have been excessive. It all depends on what Brown was doing at the time - charging or kneeling?
Something I have said myself, but only for a reason.
What would make the officer say something like that ?
Especially since he appears to be the type who would not just say that casually.
If someone hit me so hard that my brain was spinning round in my head, I know what the next words out of my mouth would be.
I might not kill them, but I would certainly make sure they were at least unconscious.
That all depends on the state your in. Here in Texas you have a right to defend yourself, others and your property. Lots of unarmed home invaders have been "put in the hole" in self defense.
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