Posted on 08/22/2014 7:26:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jim Hoft and Fox News say he did, CNN says he didnt, and now heres WaPo saying yep, he did.
Your move, New York Times.
The signs of easing tensions came as a family friend of the officer who fatally shot Brown came forward to offer a version of the incident with new details, saying that the officer suffered a fracture to his eye socket in a scuffle with the unarmed teenager before opening fire.
Hospital X-rays of the injury have been taken and will be shared with a grand jury that is weighing evidence to determine whether Officer Darren Wilson should be charged in the shooting, said the friend, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of threats. The friend has been in contact with Wilsons family members
In his account to close confidants, Wilson has repeatedly said he thought Brown was acting erratically when they had an altercation on a street in a garden apartment complex in Ferguson. He said that Brown was coming at him when he fired the fatal shots.
Darren was adamant that he believed Michael Brown had some drugs in his system, the friend said.
The DAs office says Wilson will be invited to appear before the grand jury but they admit that they havent interviewed him. Whether thats because Wilson doesnt want to talk to them (yet) or because they feel they dont need to talk to him before seeking an indictment is unclear.
Over at NRO, Charles Cooke wonders: What if weve already seen all of the relevant prosecution evidence in the Brown shooting? Is there any way that the D.A. gets a conviction here? According to the Times, many witnesses agree that there was a struggle between Brown and Wilson while Wilson was still in his squad car. They also agree that Wilsons gun discharged before he got out, that Brown started running, that Wilson fired at him while Browns back was to him, and that Brown finally stopped and turned to face him. They disagree on what happened after that. Some say Brown advanced towards Wilson, others say he stayed put. Maybe the state can do something with forensics to show whether Brown was moving forward when he was hit, but if not, itll be a test of credibility between the prosecutions witnesses and the defenses. And its a heavy lift to get from there to beyond a reasonable doubt, especially if Wilson has medical records showing that Brown had already hit him hard enough to break bone. Once you produce some evidence to show justifiable homicide, the burden falls on the prosecution to disprove it. Unless the jury decides that theres simply no plausible scenario in which an armed man reasonably needs to use lethal force to repel an attack from a man whos unarmed, the D.A. will have trouble.
Makes me wonder if maybe the state will zero in on Wilson shooting at Browns back while he was fleeing and try to get some sort of conviction out of that. That would be awfully tricky it would be bizarre for Wilson to be acquitted of murder on self-defense grounds but convicted on attempted murder or negligence grounds for the shots he fired just moments before the fatal shots. If the first shots at Browns back were criminal, didnt Brown then have a self-defense right of his own to try to disarm Wilson? If he was acting in his own self-defense, how can Wilson claim self-defense on the shots that ended up killing Brown?
Ha! Good one.....!!
“Jim Hoft and Fox News say he did, CNN says he didnt, and now heres WaPo saying yep, he did.
Your move, New York Times.”
Now that is funny. I hope there are X-rays of the fracture. I would love to see CNN caught putting out false info once again.
Gentle Mike certainly couldn’t have had anything to do with this. His hands were in the air as he walked to church choir practice.
Convoluted Logic. The author just reinforced the concept that Liberalism is a "Mental Disorder" .
Brown stole , threatened the clerk, started to leave the store, grabbed the employee by the neck , then left the store.
Brown assaulted the police officer preventing him from leaving his vehicle, assaulted the officer in his vehicle, thus injuring the cop, and thus discharging the gun
Then Brown evaded arrest by running away, officer told him and codefendant to "Freeze", Brown stopped , turned around, and then taunted the officer, and then 'bum rushed' him.
While 'bum rushing' the officer (3rd assault on the officer) he was fatally shot, with the last shot being fatal.
Brown assaulted the employee, retruned to reinforce his threats, then left the area. Brown's behavior with the police was a repeat of his previous behavior.
The authors description or the facts and justification defies logic !
You can't fix purposeful stupidity such as the author's explanation, nor the intentional fiction that the author exhibits.
Its illegal to shoot an unarmed suspect while fleeing. (and no, Officer Wilson did not shoot the kid while he was fleeing).
Just because you slug a cop doesn’t mean he can automatically use deadly force.
Look.... EVERYTHING is bogus right now. These are all rumors. I’ll believe nothing until its official. Sheeeeeeesh.
This is the part of the story that to me makes the least sense. Lets say you’re running away from someone shooting a gun at you. Who stops and turns around. Nobody would. Of course he wasn’t shot at while he was running away. The whole narrative is preposterous.
He (Wilson) did not talk to the investigators.
Why?
Because either he is smart or his attorney is smart. Nothing good EVER comes from telling your side to the police. If your lawyer says it’s ok, then do it with them. And NO lawyer will ever tell you it’s a good idea.
Probably 15+1 unless it was a 45. But then the kid would have gone down a lot faster.
I doubt the guy will even be charged.
Al Sharpton
I tend to agree with you, but Grand Juries are more political than most want to admit.
Meh. If the story of the eye socket fracture is indeed true then, no Grand Jury in the world will charge him.
IF he had a clip, it holds 10 bullets. At least mine does. His, may hold more.
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Greta tonight had the black former detective on, who frequently appears on crime related stories.
He was at an indoor shooting range with Griff Jenkins. He showed the same type of semi-auto pistol used by Wilson. He explained that the magazine held 12 and that one would be in the chamber.
This is no different from the Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman case here in Florida. The race baiters and race hustlers over shot their mark and pressured the “I-want-my-15-minutes-of-fame” district attorney in Florida to charge Zimmerman too early and with charges that couldn’t be proved, 2nd degree murder. Then when the trial came around and the jury found Zimmerman not guilty, liberal heads on TV exploded and the blacks made some noise for a while. but one hasn’t heard much of that case since. The same will happen here, except I don’t think this experienced Ferguson DA will over charge if Wilson is indicted and I think he will wait until the evidence is sufficient to charge him. The anger and steam will be out of the protestors’ sails by October when the indicted may come, if at all. This one will take some time.
The story has been changing repeatedly since day one.
Official, like the Warren Commission, right?
Let’s just cut to the chase.
Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Jackson, want this cop strung up from a lamp post. Trial doesn’t matter. They want blood.
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