Ferguson cop had "serious facial injury"?

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49. Apparently a RW single source story now picked up by ABC

Goggle "darren wilson injury" and all links point back to The Gateway Pundit.

Read little green footballs for perspective. Jim Hoft’s Unsourced Claim That Officer Darren Wilson Had an Orbital Blowout Fracture of the Eye Socket

This story is as bogus as the multiple witnesses saw the 'bum rush' story.
From Red State:
"...Another Google search shows how quickly this story has made the rounds. This story, however, suffers from the same single-source problems and plausibility problems as the first. The story appears to have had its genesis with a single St. Louis Dispatch reporter named Christine Byers who tweeted it from her personal twitter account – and who has since retracted the tweets.

In a statement from the St. Louis Dispatch, the paper said that Byers had been on medical leave since March, and “is not involved in the Ferguson coverage while she is on leave.”
..."

Meanwhile a story in The New York Times says police validate witnesses who saw Wilson shoot at Brown's back as he ran away.

"...However, law enforcement officials say witnesses and forensic analysis have shown that Officer Wilson did sustain an injury during the struggle in the car.

As Officer Wilson got out of his car, the men were running away. The officer fired his weapon but did not hit anyone, according to law enforcement officials....