"Michael Brown wasn't shot in the back, so Wilson didn't shoot at him while he was running away"

[Strelnikov_]

85. Pretty clear diagram in the Post Dispatch of the crime scene

That definitively makes Wilson's testimony suspect.

For one, the body ended up 150' plus from the prowler.

For two, the body ended up just slightly closer to the cruiser than all but two of the shell casings.

So, if he was waiting for backup/fearing for his life, why was he 150'+from his prowler.

My opinion of the event:

1) Barney Fife, calls the perp over.

2) In ensuing discussion with perp, Barney draws gun.

3) Scuffle ensues as perp unlawfully defends himself from Barney from being executed for jaywalking. A couple of shots are discharged.

4) Perp breaks and runs. Barney pursues perp, starts throwing shots at fleeing perp.

5) When perp, possibly after being struck in arm by one of Barney's shots, stops, turns around.

6) Barney continues to shoot. Perp walks toward Barney making suspicious gestures because he is a demon . . . or just maybe . . . because he is being shot.

7) Support shows up, realizes that they never should of let Barney take the bullet out of his pocket, coverup begins (ergo no statement, no pictures, no shooting report filed by Barney, etc. etc. etc. etc.).

Now, does this rise to Barney being charged with homicide. Doubtful. On the other hand . . . this absolutely rises to Barney being fired, charged with something that will prevent him from ever being a cop again, and making a huge payout to the family. It was incompetence beyond belief, enabled by the latent racism evident in law enforcement today.

It was a bad shoot.

Made criminal IMHO by the way it was subsequently handled by authorities. The same way they handle virtually all shootings of persons of color, and persons of non-color on the 'wrong side' of the economic divide.