Thanks for the update CNN - you just undermined your spin without meaning to.
just said the same.
CNN is trying to down play this , but in the meantime they have admitted he was attacked and the Docs were treating an injury serious enough to warrant x rays.
My first thought as well. This is the first I’ve seen of anyone on TV news actually recognizing the fact that Wilson was roughed up. (Which may or may not mean it is the first, since I only watch TV news if linked to it.)
If I were Wilson’s lawyer, at this point I would be doing everything I legally could to confuse the media version of what actually happened. If the media version is unified — everyone saying Brown was gunned down like a dog, for instance — the witnesses whose testimony is contrary to that version but fits with the evidence are likely to be telling the truth. So there is a sense where the potential defense lawyer doesn’t care what they’re saying, so long as it’s eight miles from reality.
Once the media version starts getting close to the truth, that’s when I as a lawyer would start to get worried about my witnesses being accused of just picking up and passing on a version of things someone else made up. What a lawyer can do about that, I dunno.