Earlier, another friend who identified herself only as Josie called The Dana Show on radio station KFTK to say that Wilson told her the tall, burly Brown, 18, had bum-rushed him before the shooting.
Josie who said she heard the version from Wilsons girlfriend said the cop encountered Brown and his pal Dorian Johnson walking down the middle of a street, pulled up and ordered them onto the sidewalk.
Wilson then noticed the pair were carrying cigars, and had heard the report of the robbery and recognized the pair as possible suspects.
And hes looking at them and they got something in their hands and it looks like it could be what, you know, those cigars or whatever. So he goes in reverse back to them, Josie said.
Wilson, she said, tries to get out of his car. They slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael did. And then he opened the car again. He tried to get out. He stands up.
And then Michael just bum-rushes him and shoves him back into his car. Punches him in the face and then Darren grabs for his gun. Michael grabbed for the gun. At one point he got the gun entirely turned against his hip. And he shoves it away. And the gun goes off, Josie said.
Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And Darrens first protocol is to pursue. So he stands up and yells, Freeze! Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him
And then all the sudden he just started bum-rushing him. He just started coming at him full speed, she told the station.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/19/witnesses-say-ferguson-teen-attacked-cop-before-shooting/
And then there's the background voice account in the youtube video that corroborates Officer Wilson's account.
I think that it is all true except the part about the cigars. I don’t think that there was enough time for the APB to go out .
What I heard was that the two were waking down the middle of the street, forcing cars to go around them, the officer pulls up next to them and tells them to get on the side walk. Brown smart mouths him a bit and ignores the instruction to get on the sidewalk. The officer sees the pair still in the street and stops again. The rest is the same.
I could be wrong, we don’t know the exact timeline.