Michael Brown Autopsy Report Leaked. Here It Is.

[Savannahmann]

21. Let me ask you this.

If I may. Just to make sure I have the story straight. A fight ensued in the car, and the weapon discharged. Supposedly blood in the car proves this. Fine. I've never really disputed that, but whatever. Then Michael Brown ran. This I can totally understand, because it is normal fight/flight response. It's totally human, and I would believe that anyone could or would do exactly the same thing. I could even believe that someone stayed and continued to fight through the window, attempting to win or whatever.

But here is where I have a problem. The idea that he ran away, and then after Darren Wilson fired again, turned and charged to attack. That makes no sense. No sense what so freaking ever. It makes far more sense that Michael Brown was surrendering, turning to surrender in other words. The shots in the face/head. I find it easier to believe that happened while he was going down after getting shot elsewhere, than I do with the idea that he was lowering his head to try and tackle Darren Wilson.

I just don't believe that anyone who intended to attack the cop would run away, and then turn and run back towards. Why surrender all the advantage you had by running away? In that scenario, Michael had his hands on the cop. He was in close physical proximity. Then he threw the advantage away, by opening up the distance in an effort to escape. Then knowing that the cop has already shot him, and knowing that he will shoot again, turn and attack?

I can even believe that Michael was leaning that way, as his body weight shifted to allow him to come to a stop. But to come to a stop, reverse, and then charge? Nope, I've searched the dictionary, and I can't find a word to properly describe how unlikely that is.

Absent the presence of some seriously mind altering drugs, or a history of serious mental health issues, I'm not buying it. I'm just not. Nobody with a modicum of sense, with any experience with violence does that. In the modern world, I consider it very unlikely that Michael would grow to graduate high school anywhere near St. Louis and never had been in a fight or exposed to any violence.

Perhaps you have a different take, or perhaps there is some history of mental illness that I've never heard of. Because frankly, you get more rational behavior out of people who have been hit in the head with a shovel than we're expected to believe Michael Brown displayed.

I would have a hard time believing that this scenario is the one that played out. I would have more than enough reasonable doubt to reject it, wouldn't you?