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In reply to the discussion: Ferguson cop had "serious facial injury"? [View all]Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)67. Thanks makes this story of Brown being agressive sound even more ludicris.
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self inflicted or done by other fellow officers to make it look like Brown attacked him.
SummerSnow
Aug 2014
#1
Nah--he smacked his own face into the car or the car door as he jumped out after the kid.
tblue37
Aug 2014
#6
That is the whole point, no decent human being would believe ONE WORD any official in that
BaggersRDumb
Aug 2014
#51
I seriously doubt that the kid hit the cop at all. If he did, there would be evidence on his hand,
tblue37
Aug 2014
#56
Probably from slamming his own face into the car door or car frame as he leapt out of the car
tblue37
Aug 2014
#4
A blow hard enough to inflict a blowout fracture of the eye socket should at least leave a bruise
Maedhros
Aug 2014
#22
On the flip side, though, the reports seem to indicate that Wilson pulled Brown INTO the car.
Maedhros
Aug 2014
#65
But it was not evidence of someone pounding his head into concrete within an inch of his life.
Hoyt
Aug 2014
#55
To my knowledge, nobody said his head was pounded into concrete within an inch of is life.
Vattel
Aug 2014
#71
yeah he had a scratch or two. The kind of scratch you get when you snag your head on a low hanging
notadmblnd
Aug 2014
#63
There was a small tree right where they were. Darn sure wasn't getting his head bashed in.
Hoyt
Aug 2014
#73
IF he was injured, we know for a FACT Mr. Brown was not the one who injured him.
MohRokTah
Aug 2014
#11
I bet that after he was (inappropriately) allowed to drive his car away from the scene,
tblue37
Aug 2014
#15
Tiffany Mitchell described seeing “Michael and the officer wrestling through the [car] window.”
cbdo2007
Aug 2014
#48
What I don't understand is why he felt he had to shoot the kid. I just don't get it.
MADem
Aug 2014
#33
No one wants to hear that Brown was a high school graduate who was supposed to be starting
MADem
Aug 2014
#84
This is why he should never have been allowed to leave the scene of the crime.
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#39
If he had been injured in this manner we would have been informed about it immediately by the police
crazylikafox
Aug 2014
#60