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CNN source: Darren Wilson didn’t suffer an eye socket fracture
Hotair ^ | 08/21/2014 | AllahPundit

Posted on 08/21/2014 2:00:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

I want to make sure after yesterday’s post that everyone knows it’s still in dispute whether Wilson’s eye socket was actually fractured in his altercation with Michael Brown.

What’s apparently not in dispute is that Wilson somehow emerged from the incident with part of his face swollen.

Reports that Ofc Darren Wilson had a bruised or fractured eye socket are false. #ferguson A source close to the investigation tells CNN

— Julian Cummings CNN (@JulianCummings) August 21, 2014

Wilson was taken to the hospital after the shooting. He had xrays which came back negative. He was treated for a swollen face. #ferguson

— Julian Cummings CNN (@JulianCummings) August 21, 2014

The extent of the injury matters insofar as the worse it is, the stronger Wilson’s defense will be that he reasonably feared serious injury from Brown when he allegedly charged at him. But it probably doesn’t matter that much: Obviously, the complexion of a case in which an unarmed man is shot dead changes if the defendant was attacked just moments before, especially if that attack involved going for the defendant’s gun. If the victim’s intent to harm is proved, establishing that Wilson’s fear of Brown was reasonable, then he’s one-third of the way to self-defense. He’d also have to show that Brown was advancing on him, a claim the prosecution will try to disprove, and further that Brown was so dangerous that Wilson was justified in using lethal force in bringing him down. Not an easy task given that Brown had no weapon of his own, but then that’s why the injury is important.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: darrenwilson; ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri; searchandfind
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To: SeekAndFind

There is a massive black information divide on this story. The black radio stations are pushing the regular lefty narrative.


21 posted on 08/21/2014 2:14:49 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SeekAndFind

Did CNN get the Exclusive right from Holder ?


22 posted on 08/21/2014 2:15:04 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: nickcarraway

Hurt his eye (still had the other one), and his trigger finger wasn’t torn off.


23 posted on 08/21/2014 2:17:13 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: Vigilanteman

“Somehow”, according to the article, he got a swollen face. I guess anything could have happened.


24 posted on 08/21/2014 2:18:21 PM PDT by Bronzewound (Lost Hope & Loose Change)
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To: SeekAndFind
To: taildragger

A black eye.

/I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express

58 posted on ‎8‎/‎19‎/‎2014‎ ‎11‎:‎41‎:‎27‎ ‎AM by Sir Napsalot

Nailed it!

25 posted on 08/21/2014 2:19:00 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you are 6’2” and 292 lbs....you are a walking around weapon. That si why the NFL calls a penalty when a similar sized man slams the quarterback after he has already thrown the ball.


26 posted on 08/21/2014 2:19:19 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (This town needs an enema)
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To: Bronzewound

“Somehow”, according to the article, he got a swollen face. I guess anything could have happened.

Mosquito Bite ?


27 posted on 08/21/2014 2:19:40 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bottom line the scum wanted the officer to take the beating and be shot to death with his own gun. The scum would celebrate that “the cop got what he deserved.”


28 posted on 08/21/2014 2:20:06 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: TheConservativeParty

Most likely some ragweed allergy............sarc


29 posted on 08/21/2014 2:20:45 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

RE: If you are 6’2” and 292 lbs....

Make that 6’4”


30 posted on 08/21/2014 2:22:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

serious enough that the Docs treating the eye had ot do an x ray.

Thanks CNN for confirming that the cop was attacked by saint Mike


31 posted on 08/21/2014 2:23:23 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: nickcarraway
One thing didn’t make sense. How could you shoot someone six times after they damaged your eye socket? How far was Brown shot from?

What an uninformed comment. I was shot thru the abdomen with a 45 cal hollow point. One inch below my navel then exited below my buttocks. I then returned fire with a 12 Ga. in a hall way at a distance of 12 feet.

Trust me that was worse than a poke in the eye.

He could and should have put six into the bad guy. The thing the officer and I have in common is that we are still able to tell our Grandchildren about the incident.

32 posted on 08/21/2014 2:23:28 PM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The scumbags are saying that the officer did it to himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS3ZoDOueto


33 posted on 08/21/2014 2:23:36 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: GraceG; nickcarraway

>> I would imagine only one eye was hurt/ in pain...

Yup, the claim involves an eye socket, not sockets.


34 posted on 08/21/2014 2:24:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

CNN loves to fill in the blanks for their news.

Too bad, anger doesn’t turn on them as well as the other media outlets.


35 posted on 08/21/2014 2:31:17 PM PDT by Christie at the beach
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To: SpinnerWebb

bttt


36 posted on 08/21/2014 2:35:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

So who at the hospital will be reprimanded and fined for revealing patient information to an outside source? Or does CNN not care about patient confidentiality?


37 posted on 08/21/2014 2:36:15 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: sport

Only the ones who have the misfortune of being at an American airport departure gate.....


38 posted on 08/21/2014 2:36:44 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“The officer accidentally discharged his gun in a panic when he saw a black kid. The surprise of the gunshot caused him to smash his face into the car window.

Then Michael Brown tried to surrender and the rest is history.”

-Don Lemonaids


39 posted on 08/21/2014 2:38:37 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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40 posted on 08/21/2014 2:39:41 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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