Darren Wilson's Testimony

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Darren Wilson's Testimony

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Keep in mind that Officer Wilson didn't give his account of the incident until weeks, even months had passed. He was allowed to hold off speaking until forensic analysis came back. Why? Probably so he could make sure his "account" didn't conflict with their findings. Too bad they did a piss poor job at the crime scene. No one photographed the body or even measured the distance between the body and the SUV. This is crucial because the police dept had been lying for months about the body being a mere 35 feet away, probably to prop the bogus claim that the officer had reasonable fear for his life. However, McCulloch admitted what critics had already been claiming, that the body was actually 160 ft away from Wilson's SUV. Since all accounts have Brown turning around and coming back towards Wilson, this means he had probably gone much further than that before turning around. Is there a reasonable fear for one's life when your attacked has already run the distance of more than half a football field?

Here is Wilson's account of the various shootings:

It fired. When it fired, my window had been down the entire time. Glass shot up. The first thing I remember seeing is glass and blood all over my right hand on the back side of my hand. Um, he looked like he was shocked initially but, and he paused for a second and then he came back into my vehicle and attempted to hit me multiple times.

He took a half step back and then he realized he was okay, I'm assuming. He came back towards my vehicle and ducked in again, his whole top half of his body came in and tried to hit me again. Fist, grab, I mean just crazy. Just random, anything he could get a hold of swinging wildly. And at that point I put my hand up like this and tried to fire again and my left hand was blocking my face. Just a click. Nothing happened. After the click I racked it and as I racked it just came up and shot again.

Um, when I turned and looked, I realized I had missed I saw a, like dust in the background and he was running eastbound on Canfield. I exited my vehicle and I said, I got on the radio and said, "Shots fired. Send me more cars."

I was yelling at him to stop and get on the ground. He kept running and then eventually he stopped in this area somewhere. When he stopped, he turned, looked at me, made like a grunting noise and had the most intense aggressive face I've ever seen on a person. When he looked at me, he then did like the hop. . .you know like people do to start running. And, he started running at me. During his first stride, he took his right hand put it under his shirt and into his waistband. And I ordered him to stop and get on the ground again. He didn't; I fired, a, multiple shots.

After I fired the multiple shots I paused for a second, yelled at him to get on the ground again, he was still in the same state. Still charging hands still in his waistband, hadn't slowed down. I fired another set of shots. Same thing, still running at me hadn't slowed down, hands still in his waistband. He gets about eight to ten feet away, a he's still coming at me in the same way. I fired more shots. One of those, however many of them hit on him in the head and he went down right there.


Notice that according to Wilson, there were a total of five different times in which he successfully fired the gun. The last three involved "multiple shots." However, the audio of the shooting suggests 11 shots were quickly fired over the span of just eight seconds. Six shots fired consecutively followed by a three second pause, and then another five shots fired consecutively. Where exactly does this fit into Wilson's account?
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Nancy Grace takes Wilson to task for his account... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C31aoBTvSw
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Can someone explain to me how bullet casing #4 ended up some 20 ft away on the other side of the street? What are the chances that a gun fired from inside the car would make it that far away through the window? The only logical explanation is that Wilson was outside of his vehicle and fired as Brown was running down the street.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sp ... the-scene/
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Legal analyst Lisa Bloom hammers the Wilson defense, pointing out (pay attention Brackite) that all they needed was a "couple of witnesses" to support the charges, to get an indictment. But they had more than a dozen, and still didn't get an indictment because the prosecutor never wanted to.
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So what if the District Attorney's flubbed up? At least they did it St. Louis style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw4nQd6lryw

It's not like they cotton to Supreme Court rulings on police conduct.
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Morning Joe on the other hand views this whole situation as a thug vs. a police officer thing and sees the shooting as something inevitable for an officer doing his job diligently:

http://www.msnbc.com/the-reid-report/watch/analyst--inconsistencies-in-wilson-testimony-363507779993
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moksha wrote:So what if the District Attorney's flubbed up? At least they did it St. Louis style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw4nQd6lryw

It's not like they cotton to Supreme Court rulings on police conduct.

Outrageous! This, to me, is the most damning evidence of prosecutorial dereliction of duty and misconduct yet. That they would show a law to the grand jury members that was ruled unconstitutional almost 20 years ago to justify not indicting Darren Wilson is totally unconscionable, and clearly a deliberate attempt at misdirection. Surely at least some of the grand jurors will eventually find out how they were deliberately duped by McCulloch and his prosecutorial team (if they haven't already) and be deeply offended and embarrassed about it. If McCulloch gets away with this, that constitutes a miscarriage of justice, regardless of the actual guilt or innocence of Darren Wilson, IMHO.

The more we delve into this, the worse it looks for both Wilson and the prosecutor in charge of the Grand Jury. Wilson could yet be indicted and brought to trial, as the double jeopardy protection clause of the U.S. constitution is not triggered until after he has actually been formally charged with a crime. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/02/3598082/one-woman-could-appoint-a-special-prosecutor-and-bring-justice-to-ferguson/

Wilson has not necessarily gotten away Scot-free yet.

Yet I still think it is unlikely that this particular incident would have occurred had brown not foolishly chosen to rob a convenience store on that fateful day.
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