He had already assaulted the officer, punching him and breaking his orbital bone around the officers eye.
Apparently he had tried to get the officers gun.
This was a big guy, 6 feet 6 inches tall and 290 pounds...and not obese.
When he charged the officer, the officer rightly presumed this large guy who had already injured him, would probably over power him if he was able to get to him. He rightly saw this charging, big strong guy, as a threat.
So he fired until the big guy went down. Apparently toward the end, Brown either fell forward, or had his head own and one shot entered the top of his head and killed him.
I would have done the same.
Most of us pal , but trying to explain guns, shooting, and self defense against thugs to a left wing media fool is like pissing in the wind
According to one source, they had had a hand to hand before wherein a shot was fired in the police car as Brown attempted to get the firearm away from the officer before he hit him in th eye.
Given his vision had to be affected and he had to be hurting, getting six on target in quick time is pretty good shooting. The last shot supposedly was inside six feet and to the forehead.
That's not been confirmed, and could have been recoil, with the gun hitting him in the eye for all anybody knows at this point.
The mook would have had to been completely insane if he punched the cop in the eye hard enough to break his eye socket, got out of the car and ran 50 feet, and then turned around and charged while the cop had a bead on him.
Of course, the mook most likely WAS completely insane.