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MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
1. I knew this lie was coming.
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 12:01 PM
Aug 2014

Painting the murder victim as the aggressor is textbook tactics for cops getting away with murder.

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)
3. She is claiming that Brown was charging Wilson when he was shot
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 12:06 PM
Aug 2014

Witnesses say that Brown was shot in the back however and it is not possible to shoot someone in the back when they are charging towards you. They need to release the autopsy results now.

 

VanGoghRocks

(621 posts)
5. Shot twice in the back, five times in the front (after he had turned around to
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 12:08 PM
Aug 2014

face Wilson with his hands up). According to a report on CNN, possible Wilson (and a possible unnamed accomplice) fired into Brown after he was already on the ground.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
7. An unarmed teen charging a cop with a gun, who had already fired at him once?
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 12:27 PM
Aug 2014

This is questionable as, even if true, it comes third hand, from the girlfriend of Officer Wilson who then told this caller to a radio talk show. According to this lady, the cop is claiming that after the gun went off and Brown retreated to a point more than 35 feet away, he turned and rushed the police car like a bull with a matador. She says that Officer Wilson says that Michel Brown seemed like he was "on something". Marijuana makes you mellow, not violently psychotic. So now they're claiming Brown was high on PCP? Or else he was carrying out a suicide by cop?

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
8. You ought to read the vile right wing stuff on the Discussionist. They say, he spun around when hit
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 12:32 PM
Aug 2014

and that is why he might have been shot in the back.

I really wish the autopsy report would get issued.

 

pintobean

(18,101 posts)
10. The fact that the family ordered a second autopsy
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 12:41 PM
Aug 2014

might suggest that the results of the first may not support the stories in the media.

Hoyt, we've traded blows over guns, but I have to compliment you on your posts on this matter. You're level headed and fair.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
11. These things seem to take all kinds of turns until everything is released.
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 01:10 PM
Aug 2014

It's just an awful, avoidable tragedy, not matter what comes next.

onethatcares

(16,166 posts)
12. when does the skittles/iced tea bullshit come out?
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 01:42 PM
Aug 2014

seems it's the only thing missing from the screen play

 

pintobean

(18,101 posts)
13. There appears to be a witness telling the same story
Sun Aug 17, 2014, 02:07 PM
Aug 2014

on this video. It is two guys talking in the background that starts at about the 6:05 mark.

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