The Rude Pundit: In Brief: Something Else That's Wrong with Darren Wilson's Story of the Shooting...

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39. In the diagram posted in this thread, the casings are the black dots

There are two next to the car, ten near where Brown's body was found. The blood "smears" were 20-25 feet past where the body lay, according to the diagrams I've seen posted here on DU.

But I have a major problem with the information on the diagrams. More than one source has criticized the evidence collection. Various narratives have said that it took a while for police to tape off the scene (Dorian Johnson in his grand jury testimony said he went to his apartment, changed clothes, came back down and the scene was being taped), lots of people wandered in and out of the scene.

The blood "smears" don't look as though they dropped down from a wound - more as if they were carried back from the shots further away: (scroll down about 2/3s of the page to the images of the blood) http://www.scribd.com/doc/248153256/Michael-Brown-Shooting-Ferguson-Crime-Scene-Photos The photo with the marker #20 shows angled spatter, not spatter from above. The spatter at marker #19 is also angled, though not as much.

Could the spatter behind where Michael Brown's body lay have been from where parts of his skull where thrown by the force of the shot that killed him? That would eliminate the narrative that those blood areas "prove" that Brown turned and "charged" at Wilson.

I don't trust the location of the shell casings - they are very tightly grouped. Did Wilson stand in one spot, shoot 4-5 rounds at the fleeing Brown, then as Brown "charged" at Wilson, Wilson did not move and shot 5-6 more rounds at the charging Wilson? Because according to Wilson's story and the recorded location of the rounds, that is what the police claim. I wonder if the casings were moved to fit Wilson's story.