Exactly. It doesn’t matter if there wasn’t a fracture. Based on what we’re told it appears brown punched him and tried to get his gun. If true that is enough.
Even if none of that happened but Brown charged him I would think he had reasonable cause to shoot him.
Agreed. My perception is that the lynch mobs’ values about what is reasonable are fundamentally different from the mainstream values that undergird the “contract” society asks police to enforce as “law & order”. (This is precisely what they perceive as racially-motivated injustice).
They might concede that Brown stole the cigars, roughed up the store owner, strutted down the center of the street (a passive-aggressive assertion of control if there ever was one), assaulted Officer Wilson, ran away, then charged back at him, and STILL believe that Wilson murdered an unarmed child out of racial hatred, because they dismiss all Brown’s problematic behavior:
1) cigar theft (store owner steals from the community every day by charging high prices; “he didn’t built that”);
2) roughing up the clerk (foreign devil disrespected Mike and was racist for assuming he was stealing the cigars and therefore deserved it);
3) dope in system (just normal teen behavior);
4) strutting down middle of street blocking traffic (black people get shot for merely walking down the street);
5) punched the officer (eyewitness says cop attempted to pull 300# Mike through the truck window; eye injury was self-inflicted/faked);
6) charged at Officer (but Mike had his hands up while charging; should have fired a warning shot; should have wrestled with him; etc).