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CNN source: Darren Wilson didn’t suffer an eye socket fracture
Hotair ^ | 08/21/2014 | AllahPundit

Posted on 08/21/2014 2:00:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

I want to make sure after yesterday’s post that everyone knows it’s still in dispute whether Wilson’s eye socket was actually fractured in his altercation with Michael Brown.

What’s apparently not in dispute is that Wilson somehow emerged from the incident with part of his face swollen.

Reports that Ofc Darren Wilson had a bruised or fractured eye socket are false. #ferguson A source close to the investigation tells CNN

— Julian Cummings CNN (@JulianCummings) August 21, 2014

Wilson was taken to the hospital after the shooting. He had xrays which came back negative. He was treated for a swollen face. #ferguson

— Julian Cummings CNN (@JulianCummings) August 21, 2014

The extent of the injury matters insofar as the worse it is, the stronger Wilson’s defense will be that he reasonably feared serious injury from Brown when he allegedly charged at him. But it probably doesn’t matter that much: Obviously, the complexion of a case in which an unarmed man is shot dead changes if the defendant was attacked just moments before, especially if that attack involved going for the defendant’s gun. If the victim’s intent to harm is proved, establishing that Wilson’s fear of Brown was reasonable, then he’s one-third of the way to self-defense. He’d also have to show that Brown was advancing on him, a claim the prosecution will try to disprove, and further that Brown was so dangerous that Wilson was justified in using lethal force in bringing him down. Not an easy task given that Brown had no weapon of his own, but then that’s why the injury is important.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: darrenwilson; ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri; searchandfind
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1 posted on 08/21/2014 2:00:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Mosquito Bite ?


2 posted on 08/21/2014 2:02:14 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SeekAndFind

It wouldn’t matter if he had a fractured skull. 6 shots into an “unarmed teen who had his hands up in the universal sign of surrender” is all the riotous mobs have heard and it is what is driving them to wear out their stolen Air Jordans marching down the streets.


3 posted on 08/21/2014 2:04:04 PM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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To: SeekAndFind

One thing didn’t make sense. How could you shoot someone six times after they damaged your eye socket? How far was Brown shot from?


4 posted on 08/21/2014 2:04:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SeekAndFind

There is a thread on this already.


5 posted on 08/21/2014 2:04:28 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal Tactic: Discredit ALL the facts by clinging to a tiny piece of discontinuity...


6 posted on 08/21/2014 2:05:48 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Main thread.....

CNN reports Officer Wilson did NOT have a broken eye socket after altercation with Michael Brown

Thursday, August 21, 2014 2:57:03 PM · by bkopto · 88 replies
The Right Scoop ^ | 8/21/2014 | Staff

 

7 posted on 08/21/2014 2:06:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

so... CNN is now reporting that Brown did indeed attack the officer.

That’s what I’m hearing.


8 posted on 08/21/2014 2:07:37 PM PDT by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: SeekAndFind

So, he had a spontaneous swollen face?


9 posted on 08/21/2014 2:07:46 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (tagline closed due to tyranny)
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To: SeekAndFind

C.N.N.


10 posted on 08/21/2014 2:08:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. Eccl 10,v 19)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is no hope for any one who believes anything that comes from CNN. Unfortunately for the United States, that encompasses most of America.


11 posted on 08/21/2014 2:08:54 PM PDT by sport
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To: GraceG

all part of the Alinsky method to discredit your opponent.


12 posted on 08/21/2014 2:09:28 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The officer’s injuries are what they are, but the fact remains that while CNN didn’t rush to the presses with news about the officer’s injuries (which might have had a dampening effect on the riots), CNN sure as hell rushes to report that those injuries they were reluctant to report in the first place aren’t so bad.


13 posted on 08/21/2014 2:10:48 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, well the cop’s a racist then, case closed


14 posted on 08/21/2014 2:11:03 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: TheConservativeParty

Yeah, he went home and thrust his head into a hornet’s nest just to cover up.


15 posted on 08/21/2014 2:12:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: nickcarraway

[ One thing didn’t make sense. How could you shoot someone six times after they damaged your eye socket? How far was Brown shot from? ]

I would imagine only one eye was hurt/ in pain...


16 posted on 08/21/2014 2:12:26 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: SpinnerWebb

so... CNN is now reporting that Brown did indeed attack the officer.

their ratings must be dropping ,people drifting away to watch paint dry


17 posted on 08/21/2014 2:12:27 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SeekAndFind
"CNN source: Darren Wilson didn’t suffer an eye socket fracture"

From the looks of the autopsy diagram, it appears that Brown may have. Maybe someone applied that to Wilson while passing the rumor on.

Nine days later,...

Was the cop injured during his altercation with Michael Brown?
Hot Air.com ^ | aUGUST 19, 2014 | ALLAHPUNDIT
"Josie doesn’t claim that Brown busted Wilson’s eye, a detail you’d think she would want to mention to emphasize the severity of the attack. Also, if you look back at the cellphone video captured by Piaget Crenshaw, you’ll see Wilson standing by Brown’s body with no apparent injury and seemingly in no distress from what allegedly would have been a nasty eye injury."


18 posted on 08/21/2014 2:12:35 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The MSM is now paying more attention to the retraction of the story that Wilson’s eye socket was broke than they did to yesterday’s news that his eye socket was broken.


19 posted on 08/21/2014 2:14:23 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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How could you shoot someone six times after they damaged your eye socket?

Adrenaline + emergency backup eye (that’s one reason GOD gave us two)


20 posted on 08/21/2014 2:14:44 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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