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In reply to the discussion: Leaked autopsy report supports Darren Wilson’s account of Michael Brown shooting [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)There have been other accounts that say he only raised his arms away from his sides not up in the air. There's been a torrent of selective belief about this case from the start. There's one witness that claimed to see the entire episode who was questioned by the grand jury who said that Brown only raised his arms away from his sides and moved toward the officer.
For quite some time it was believed he was shot in the back while running away. That turned out to not be true once the defense revealed their autopsy findings. Everyone here still disregards that Brown only moments before the shooting robbed a store and was violent toward the clerk. Johnson disappeared entirely after that having been running around with his silly account of what happened, which by the way, said absolutely nothing about anyone's race. Not one person either those claiming to be witnesses, Brown's family, the protesters who were of the belief that Brown was shot while surrendering and even running away said a thing about anyone's race having anything to do with the incident.
As I've said every time about this case, I have no idea whether or not shooting Brown was legal or not concerning whatever it was that was happening (and there has been two different sides to that story from the beginning). I don't know the particulars of the law concerning that nor how they're applied. That's the job of the grand jury who get all the information concerning what happened and instruction in applying the law.