Michael Brown Autopsy Report Leaked. Here It Is.

[Savannahmann]

44. I find it nearly impossible to believe that Michael Brown turned and charged.

Why did he run when the gun was fired? Fear. Fear, and the desire to escape. Blood splatter according to the reports shows he was shot in the car, probably in the arm. Even with adrenalin, he would know he had been shot. So he ran. Totally consistent with the emotional fight/flight response.

Next gunshots. He surrendered, turning to see the danger and see that it was abated. Again, totally consistent with fear.

Michael Brown grew up in a disadvantaged area, one with a fairly high crime rate. St. Louis and the surrounding areas are not known as bastions of genteel society. Nobody gets to 18 years old in the hood without knowing about violence first hand. Nobody who grew up in the hood is and who has survived long enough to reach 18 is dumb enough to charge at a man pointing a gun at them.

I know, I grew up surrounded by neighborhoods like that. When gunshots go off, people scatter, or they freeze in fear, or they surrender, or they shoot back. They don't run, stop, turn, and attack. Anyone that dumb wouldn't live to reach 18.

Ferguson's crime stats. http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Ferguson-Missouri.html

I'm not saying that Ferguson is like the town I grew up in. I'm not saying that it is anything like the Barrio that was just across the main street from my neighborhood. But there is always violence in the cities, and the kids grow up understanding it far more than you can imagine. Michael was a survivor, he'd survived until the age of 18, which in most cities is no small feat. He knew about guns. He had heard them growing up. Nobody who grew up in that environment would be stupid enough to run, turn, and then attack.

My experience with violence, and the rationality/irrationality is a little different. When I first moved into the neighborhood in California, I was known as Gringo. After a couple years, it became Blanco. I learned to speak half assed spanish in self defense, to know when someone was after me. A persons actions are always logical, to them. You have to learn to see it from their point of view. You have to learn to understand what they are doing, and why. No one from any halfway rough neighborhood does what the police assert Michael did. They just don't do it. By the time you've reached 18 you already know to duck when someone is shooting. Your head is on a swivel, looking for danger. You strut and pose because you know if you look tough enough, then someone may not attack you. If your knee hurts, you don't let it show, because if you do you are showing weakness, and you are showing that you can be a victim.

Darren Wilson did not have to fire his weapon when Michael turned around. He had more than thirty feet of distance. He had a second to see what was happening. He had a second to evaluate the situation. Instead he started shooting and did not stop until Michael had been hit in the head twice. There was no assessment of the situation after any of the shots, he just kept firing even when one of the bullets had already ended the victims life.

Darren Wilson was going for revenge, how dare this child attack me? I'm a cop, and you don't disrespect me. That is the only answer that makes any sense, and that is why the people of Ferguson are outraged. It was one more death, one too many in a long line of needless deaths. The citizens of Ferguson know all of this, but they have a hard time explaining it. But to those who have lived it, they know bullshit when they hear it. Because Michael Wilson would have died long before 18 if he was dumb enough to do what is suggested. You can't get away with it, you can't pull the trick off. Not from thirty plus feet away. Five or six feet, I might believe, but not thirty plus.