I'm wondering if the three wounds on the right arm and the right chest were caused by the same bullet. Arm raised forward in a position to push or strike, bullet hits thumb, forearm, upper-arm, and finally chest.
Posted on 08/17/2014 10:45:41 PM PDT by Morgana
Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old whose shooting by a police officer set off more than a week of unrest in Ferguson, Mo., was struck by at least six bullets, including two to the head, according to a former New York City medical examiner.
The autopsy results came as a march protesting Mr. Brown's Aug. 9 death erupted in chaos Sunday night when police forced back demonstrators in a cloud of smoke and a hail of sizzling canisters.
Michael M. Baden, who conducted a second, private autopsy Sunday for the Brown family, said wounds to the head and brain were the likely cause of death.
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If Michael Brown would have been a good little (or big) community citizen who stayed home playing video games there would have been no need for an autopsy.
Excellent article written by a trauma surgeon:
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Stopping Power: Myths, Legends, and Realities
When it comes to claims about the effectiveness of handgun ammo, don’t believe the hype.
January 16, 2013 | by Sydney Vail, MD
As a trauma surgeon and a tactical medical specialist, I am often asked by law enforcement officers what caliber and type of handgun ammunition offers the most stopping power. I can’t answer that question. Let me explain why.
Excerpts...
Now we need to go back a step and define stopping power. Is it the ability of a particular ammunition to:
Immediately incapacitate a threat?
Eventually incapacitate a threat?
Slow down a threat?
Render a person less able to remain a threat?
Knock the threat to the ground?
....
The ultimate stopping power rests with your training with your weapon system. Accurate hits in any reasonable caliber will “stop” a person if that person has experienced enough brain or spinal cord damage to interrupt regular neurologic impulses from reaching vital areas of the body or the person has hemorrhaged enough blood to lower his or her blood pressure where the brain no longer is able to function well. You can also stop a person if a major bone shatters after a bullet injures it, but does that stop the fight?
Read all of the article at: http://www.policemag.com/channel/weapons/articles/2013/01/stopping-power-myths-legends-and-realities.aspx`
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“They want to time this for November. Mass black voter turnout in the face of record black unemployment and Hispanics replacing them every day for jobs and most important minority status.”........
The dumbed down will vote for ANYBODY who is black, they could care less what his/her politics are, that is what got us this useless POS we have for POTUS.
Baden also did not have access to the unarmed black teenagers clothing. I read that they would show gun powder residue which could determine the distance.
Anybody know the calibre of the officer’s weapon? 6 hits, for one, is pretty good shooting for anyone under those conditions. But a higher calibre greater than .22 should have slowed him down...unless he was high in something.
My unscientific WAG is that he had his arms slightly outstretched as if to put his hands on the LEO.
The fact that no entrance wounds were in his back totally destroys the credibility of his buddy’s account. Unfortunately, sharpton, jackson, et al, do not want to be confused by facts.
I found it interesting that the MD that did the post did not disclose the location of the exit wounds.
From what I have read, the shooting was justified. And this is from the MM that would love to crucify the LEO and bestow sainthood on the suspect.
Already read somewhere that “Big Mike” was high on something.
I'm wondering if the three wounds on the right arm and the right chest were caused by the same bullet. Arm raised forward in a position to push or strike, bullet hits thumb, forearm, upper-arm, and finally chest.
Note "at least". He means that it was NOT closer than 1 or 2 feet. It could have been 30 yards away. It just means that he didn't find powder burns in the wounds.
This incident makes a strong case for carrying a .44 Magnum, doesn’t it?
Apparently, the cop was under great duress. Possibly pain, if indeed he had been injured.
Actually BOR just said he had marijuana in his system.
The shooter’s dope was a little off to the left.
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