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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)It was only said that he had a swollen face. No idea where this fractured eye socket claim came from, but it didn't come from anyone in authority.
This is the very problem with leaked information in any case. There's no way to know who the source is, whether or not it's true or whether or not it's some dip in the media just making sensational claims or worse some nobody on social media.
I've said from the beginning time and again to wait for FACTS from the actual investigation came out, but ooooooh nooooo, I continually got shouted down for that by people thinking they knew everything and now boast about misinformation that came from who the hell knows where. From the beginning those in authority only mentioned that Wilson had a swollen face. THEY never said anything about his having a fractured eye socket and even denied it since they didn't even have his medical records at that time. Just where did this fractured eye socket claim even come from when it never did from anyone in authority? Was that the unknown woman that claimed to be a friend of Wilson's that ran amok on the radio making all kinds of unfounded claims and who never actually got any information from Wilson himself and while remaining anonymous? It was the prosecutors that denied that rumor, by the way.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/08/21/darren_wilson_eye_socket_not_broken_by_michael_brown_cnn_says.html
That claim appears to have been undermined. For one, the Post is now reporting that prosecutors have not seen any of Wilson's medical records:
[Spokesperson Ed] Magee said that prosecutors have not received any medical records relating to Wilson so far. But he said that since Wilson was taken to the hospital, they assume there are medical records and they just havent received them yet.