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How Does Wilson Fire Six Shots, While Getting Beaten, Without Gunshot Residue on Michael Brown?
The Huffington Post ^ | September 1, 2014 | H. A. Goodman

Posted on 09/01/2014 8:44:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Darren Wilson might eventually be exonerated for the death of Michael Brown and there's a chance he indeed acted appropriately, at least in terms of self-defense, that fateful day. The law protects him, but it also allows the family of Michael Brown to inquire as to how their unarmed son was killed while walking in the street. Shoplifting cigars from a convenience store does not deserve the electric chair and Wilson never knew of the alleged theft. According to The Wall Street Journal, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson "said the officer stopped Mr. Brown because he was walking in the road and disrupting traffic."

Time magazine has quoted Police Chief Thomas Jackson as stating, "This robbery does not relate to the initial contact between the officer and Michael Brown." So, don't connect the two incidents when trying to justify Brown's death. There might indeed have been a scuffle at one point after Brown was told to get on the sidewalk, but Wilson did not have a fractured eye socket, a CNN source dispelled that myth. One can't say Brown was a human deadly weapon if Wilson simply had bruising and not a fracture, or something of that nature. In court, Wilson will have to prove that an unarmed man (not committing a crime that moment and undeserving of death for any alleged prior crime) not only went after his gun, but was also either beating him as he shot six times, or rushing towards him with deadly intent before the shooting. Either way, it's hard to go from "get off the street" to scuffle within a car or suicidal charge at a Glock staring at you, without question Wilson's mindset, or behavior during the interactions of that fateful day....

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TOPICS: Government; Local News
KEYWORDS: darrenwilson; ferguson; michaelbrown; policebrutality
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who claimed that 5 of Michael Brown's bullet wounds were from the combative melee at the vehicle's window?
61 posted on 09/01/2014 2:20:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In court, Wilson will have to prove that an unarmed man (not committing a crime that moment...)

If Brown and Johnson were walking away from the store with the stolen merchandise still in their possession, then they WERE still committing the crime that moment. They were fleeing the scene.

Is that like saying that bank robbers who are caught in the getaway car are not committing a crime at that moment?

-PJ

62 posted on 09/01/2014 2:27:48 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In court, Wilson will have to prove that an unarmed man (not committing a crime that moment and undeserving of death for any alleged prior crime) not only went after his gun

Jaywalking was the original criminal offense. Assaulting an officer then fleeing the scene is what brought on the shooting.

63 posted on 09/01/2014 2:44:25 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: fwdude

Hey stop it...he was a unarmed high school valedictorian


64 posted on 09/02/2014 7:29:15 AM PDT by Friendofgeorge (Justice for Officer Darren)
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