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Witness saw encounter from start to finish:
CLAYTON A stream of eyewitnesses has been testifying in secret before a grand jury considering whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown near the Canfield Green apartments in Ferguson."
*He was 20 to 25 feet from officer, and after he started staggering, he (Wilson) let off four more rounds. As he was firing those last rounds, Michael was on his way down. We were thinking, Oh my God, oh my God, brother, stop, stop. He was already on his way down when he fired those last shots.
The witness said Wilson didnt have to kill Brown. It went from zero to 100 like that, in the blink of an eye. ... What transpired to us, in my eyesight, was murder. Down outright murder."
*Two men from outside the area who were working outside the apartment complex previously told the Post-Dispatch that Wilson chased Brown on foot away from the car after the initial gunshot, and fired at least one more shot in Browns direction as he fled. They said that Brown stopped, turned around and put his hands up, and that the officer killed him in a barrage of gunfire.
The men also said they never heard the officer say anything to Brown before opening fire, and that they heard Brown scream, OK! OK! OK! OK! OK! OK!
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/witness-adds-new-perspective-to-ferguson-shooting/article_ab6e1e03-c49a-5c7f-8786-b0e88ec79349.html
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Didn't get the whole link. Fixed now.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)The cop was feared for his life--it's the police get out of jail free card.