Ferguson: Police Kill 18yo Black Male; Fire Gas/Rubber Bullets Into Protesting Crowds

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I'm slightly surprised MSM cable news hasn't reported about the autopsy yet.

All the witnesses including several journalists and key community leaders seem to be claiming that there was no sense of violence before these police action began. Seems to be no evidence of the whole molotov cocktail claim either.
 
I wonder if people wouldve been executed in the street like they were during the newark riots if cops knew people with smartphones were live streaming and recording everything.
 
He could have been shot at while running away, stopped and turned around only to get shot from the front.

Eyewitness testimony isn't going to be perfect.

I think this is what happened, and still fits with eyewitness accounts. It's tough for an eyewitness to know if the shots hit him or not, but I think it's fairly unmistakable to see that he was running away and then turned around and proceeded to be shot to death.
 
I'm slightly surprised MSM cable news hasn't reported about the autopsy yet.

All the witnesses including several journalists and key community leaders seem to be claiming that there was no sense of violence before these police action began. Seems to be no evidence of the whole molotov cocktail claim either.

Give it time. It just came out very recently.
 
Yep. There were people just waiting for this so they can grasp at straws for "contradictions" already a lot of people in this thread doing it.

Or maybe they are sorting through the evidence we have and trying to make sense of it all. Automatically trying to shut someone up through accusations like this doesn't help a discourse.
 
All shots were fired in the front? That means he was not shot running away, but either when he was stopped with hands up or running towards the officer.

OR he could have been running away, the cop started shooting at him so he turned around to surrender only to be shot a bunch of times. Which gels with the witness testimony and right now is the most likely scenario.
 
I don't remember the witnesses actually saying that he was shot in the back, just that he was shot at and it appeared that something made him "jerk" as if he had been hit, then he turned around and got killed. Maybe I'm misremembering. But there's nothing to contradict the idea that he was shot at while running away.
Maybe him jerking was him flinching in fear at the gunshots? Then he stops, turns around, puts his hands up.
 
Just because he was shot in the back doesn't mean he wasn't surrendering. Cop still shot a surrendering suspect, which is second degree murder.

Someone who knows ballistics or geometry better might correct me, but since those first four shots are all on the interior of the arm, wouldn't that imply his hands were up? Or at least showing palms in surrender?

Unless he berserker rushed the cop with his arms out like Wolverine...


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It possible he was shot at twice while he was running and then stopped, turned around and surrendered and then was shot. The witnesses might have mistaken that the shots fired when he was running actually struck him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qo14KOcQxw

There was a shot, he fell, and then was shot 6 more times according to this one.

You know, it's not that hard to believe he'd hit the deck if he simply heard a bullet whizz by his head, which made it look like he was shot.
 
Guys, the head bullets were the last ones. The Autopsy says so...
I have this sickening image in my head of Michael hunched over after having been shot 4 times, and the cop shoots him twice more in the head, execution style.

These cops are so fucking spooked if they're pointing guns at journalists.

Just a few minutes ago, MSNBC was showing the cops in the parking lot mall, the last guy on the line was indiscriminately pointing his pistol. No need to do that, not only that his pistol should be holstered.
 
I don't know what system needs to happen but I no longer trust police. I know, took me long enough! And we all know for a fact this is going to be consequence free.
 
It would be really hard to tell for sure if someone was shot in the back, actually. It's not like a videogame where blood spurts out of the wound. They probably thought he was (hell, Mike might have thought he was) when he turned around. He might have been just scared.

I'm pretty sure it's incredibly easy for autopsy personnel and forensic experts to determine from which way the bullet entered the body.
 
Doesn't this contradict the eye witness accounts that he was shot in the back while running away?

To be honest, it only raises some more questions.

We all assumed that he was shot while running away, but as people pointed out, depending on how many rounds Wilson fired, he could have been shot at while running away, and that is when he turned around to surrender only to be hit by the remaining volley.
 
Someone who knows ballistics or geometry better might correct me, but since those first four shots are all on the interior of the arm, wouldn't that imply his hands were up? Or at least showing palms in surrender?

Unless he berserker rushed the cop with his arms out like Wolverine...

Yeah that would make sense. Guy fell down raised his arms and got shot. Arm position wouldn't make sense otherwise.
 
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