Let’s see how the forensic evidence compares to this story. The cop’s weapon will be examined and if it is short 5 or 6 rounds in the magazine, it would corroborate. If only 1 or 2 rounds are spent, it would impugn the credibility of this witness. Same if investigators recover the spent casings.
The point being, this officer’s actions should be judged based on a cool analysis of the facts — many of which aren’t even known at this time — and not either a knee-jerk defense or the faux outrage ginned up by the Victim Industrial Complex.
Let me make it clear ; the cop is in the wrong here. If it happened as the witness stated and he stopped and put his hands in the air THEN the cop fired his weapon he should be in jail doing time.
I’d also suspect the autopsy would be crucial. If the cop, only fired one shot while Brown was allegedly attacking him, there should only be one wound with powder residue. If, OTOH, there are several wounds, some from the back and some from the front, then this witness’ story will be corroborated and the cop will be in deep trouble. One thing for sure, it’s not a Martin/Zimmerman case where all the accurate evidence did nothing but exonerate Zimmerman. At best, the whole thing is very problematic for the cop.
“Let’s see how the forensic evidence compares to this story”
See if any entered from the back ...