In Ferguson, the Grand Jury Is Out and the Fix Is in

[Travelman]

51. I want to know that, too.

I've seen this claim cropping up a lot on the internet the last couple of weeks (the distance seems to keep growing; I've seen fifty feet, seventy feet, eighty feet, and now 100 feet), but so far, I've found no credible basis for the claim.

It's PLAINLY obvious from the video taken after the shooting that Brown did indeed fall about 30-35 feet from the cruiser. So, that means that between the time of the altercation at the cruiser until the moment of the fatal shot striking Michael Brown, he has to have run 100 feet in one direction, then turned around, AND RAN SIXTY-FIVE FEET BACK TOWARDS WILSON. IF this is actually true, then what these people are saying actually corroborates Wilson's side of the story.

Claiming that he was actually shot 100 feet away is just ludicrous in the extreme. First of all, that would mean that Wilson had to somehow drag Brown's body 65 back from where he fell to leave it 35 feet from the cruiser, and managed to do so without being noticed by a single person, and without leaving any trace evidence (such as the massive amount of blood that was pouring out of Brown's head from two head wounds). And if anyone here thinks that you're going to hit a man-sized target at 100 feet with a pistol, then you're just flat-out out of your mind. The best shooters in the world would be hard-pressed to pull that off under ideal circumstances, much less a chaotic, adrenaline-pumping moment of a panicked person who has just been in a physical altercation.