Until this video surfaced, the police department had been taking the killer at his word and it was going to be routine self defense "feared for my life".
Until this video surfaced, the police department had been taking the killer at his word and it was going to be routine self defense "feared for my life".
Perhaps... However, five shots to the back without any powder burns surely would have been found in the autopsy and would have been cause for an investigation. What bothers me is that the person who took the video apparently did not report him/herself as an eye witness before producing the video. I understand some reluctance, out of fear (he/she had just witnessed what appears to have been a police murder), to come forward immediately but surely he/she would have done so at some point. It took brave eyewitnesses to come forward and clear Darren Wilson... surely he/she would have come forward to help indite this injustice.
“Until this video surfaced, the police department had been taking the killer at his word and it was going to be routine self defense “feared for my life”.”
The only time cops seem to have any fear is when they’re shooting at you.
What’s interesting is the “Everyone is a criminal with something to hide except for cops, and cops never lie” mindset that many, many cops and their family and close friends seem to have.
Saw a case with national attention where the cop failed to follow police protocol and procedures and caused the death of a citizen, yet he and his friends and family claimed for years that the victim had failed to follow instructions, which still gets repeated all the time, despite millions having been paid to the family of the victim.