Posted on 08/12/2014 6:22:25 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
and actions before police shot the unarmed teen dead
Mr Johnson said that he and Brown were walking home from a store when the cop told them to get out of the street and 'get the f***' on to the sidewalk'....
The friend said the officer threw open the door which slammed closed again after bouncing off Brown. It was then that the officer grabbed his friend by the neck.
'The time frame was 60 seconds or less, it got out of hand really quickly.'
Johnson said that the officer had drawn his gun by this time and threatened to shoot Michael.
'I seen the fire come out of the barrel,' he told the network. 'I could see so vividly what was going on because I was so close.'
Johnson said the first time the officer fired, he and Brown got scared and ran away but he could already see that the teenager had blood coming down his shirt where he had been shot.
The 22-year-old ducked behind a car but Brown kept running.
'He shot again, and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and put his hands in the air, and he started to get down,' Johnson said.
The 22-year-old said: '[Brown] stopped, turned with his hands up and said ''I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!'' 'But the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots.'
The eye-witness said despite the teenager's protests, the officer shot again, hitting Brown and leaving him on the ground.
The 22-year-old spoke to MSNBC on Tuesday alongside his attorney, and former St Louis' mayor, Freeman Bosley Jr.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What is your source for that?
“Could the cop be black?”
Maybe,, but only 3 of the 50 cops are Black.
It didn’t happen — the 12 brass casings scattered around the scene prove it didn’t.
I heard it on the radio.
Michael Berry.
It’s supposed to be going to a grand jury.
Who made the claim - a caller, a police spokesman, an eyewitness?
How do you know he was shot at the location he was found dead?
Apparently some witnesses.
Well, then the cop committed murder and should face the death penalty.
If true, it's murder. I can't wait to see how the local "authorities" will explain why it was "justified."
The propaganda war is in full swing.
The English is too precise and belies normal colloquial usage in the demographic.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/11/us/missouri-ferguson-michael-brown-what-we-know/index.html
With witness statements and a whole lot of scene physical evidence, I wonder what could possibly be holding up completion of the investigation?
This should not be too complex considering the above.
I love your moniker BTW...
Well if CNN says it, it must be true. /s
Since you don't know what happened, is what you read actually what happened? I would like to read the officer involved statement...Have you read it?
Just curious....
If you know enough, why would you need to learn more. You make no sense.
Well, since you put it that way...
Hey Joe...Funny stuff....my buddy got a great laugh seeing that...How ya been Joe? Hope everything is A-OK for ya.
St. Louis County Chief of Police Belmar is the one who said it.
Does that make it look less favorable for the officer involved, in your opinion?
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