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

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48. Wilson had already opened the door and had hit Brown with the door.

That is an assault. All Brown had done at that point was to insult the officer maybe using a word that offended the officer. That's hardly grounds for backing up right next to Brown and then opening the door so as to hit Brown. The aggression on Wilson's part was there from the get-go.

If Wilson thought that Brown had stolen cigarillos, Wilson's trying to open the door was a foolish thing to do. The story makes no sense, but it is clear that Wilson was not just trying to stop Brown but rather that something in Wilson might have been seeking to start a fight -- a fight in which Wilson had the gun and Brown clearly did not.

Assuming Wilson's statement that Brown reached for his gun is true, that fact was a pretty good but not definite indication that Brown did not himself have a gun.