Official autopsy shows Michael Brown had close-range wound to his hand, marijuana in system

[Travelman]

151. Today's autopsy results don't say that.

First, there is no proof that the one shot in the arm didn't come from behind. That was stated in the initial report for from the coroner. They stated that the shot could have been from the front with his hands up or from the back with his arms down. Nothing found since refutes that.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/preliminary-autopsy-shows-michael-brown-shot-six-times/

First of all, just to be clear, this is not the initial autopsy, just the first one with findings reported. What was released today is actually the first, and I would argue most accurate, autopsy performed.

Why would I argue "most accurate?" Because this was the first crack at the evidence, and much, possibly even most of that evidence was gone by the time the second autopsy, referenced in the CBS report, was performed. By the time that autopsy was performed, Brown's body had, at the very least, already been embalmed, and there is a very significant likelihood that the body had already been washed in preparation for burial, too. As such, it is, as Dr. Baden himself admitted, incomplete and imperfect at best.


Now, with that out of the way, today's findings clearly show that the wound that allegedly showed Brown was fired upon from behind instead demonstratively shows that in fact Brown was not shot from behind nor did he have his hands up:

A sixth shot that hit the forearm traveled from the back of the arm to the inner arm, which means Brown’s palms could not have been facing Wilson, as some witnesses have said, Melinek said. That trajectory shows Brown probably was not taking a standard surrender position with arms above the shoulders and palms out when he was hit, she said.

The trajectory of that bullet was from the back (dorsal) side of Brown's forearm to the front (ventral) side of Brown's forearm. The trajectory of the bullet was such that the bullet moved closer to the elbow on its track. Therefore, if you were to hold your arms down to your side with your palms facing backward, the wound would come from the part of your arm facing forward on your body and exit the part of your arm facing backward on your body, and would have an upward trajectory. This would not be possible from Wilson's shooting position. If Brown had had his hands up and was facing Wilson, then the wound would have moved from ventral to dorsal, not the other way around. If Brown had had his hands up while he was facing away from Wilson, then the wound would have gone from dorsal to ventral, as this one did, but the track would be away from the elbow, not towards it.

The wound on Michael Brown's hand is a defensive wound. It indicates a drawn weapon pointed at him he was trying to push away.

It might be a defensive wound, but what it definitively shows is that Brown's right hand, at the least, was in very, very close proximity to Wilson's gun when it fired. That could be a defensive wound, as in trying to push the gun away, or it could be a wound sustained while reaching for a gun.

Tell me how he was able to reach around Wilson, pull his weapon out of the holster, and the gun would have been pointed at Brown.

Well, personally, I've never said that was the case. Wilson's narrative says that he pulled the gun himself.

There has been no evidence leaked or otherwise that says Michael Brown's prints are on the gun or the holster.

Well, no, there hasn't been, but just because fingerprint evidence has not been released to the public does not constitute definitive proof that Brown didn't reach for or touch Wilson's sidearm. Now, if that evidence gets released and there are no Brown fingerprints on Wilson's gun, then that turns into a big problem for Wilson, since, at least according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Brown grabbed the pistol using his right hand."

I don't find it at all hard to believe that Wilson tried to pull him in the vehicle. More of a police attitude than anything else. The forensics back DJ's story.

Then you need to go and try that for yourself. Go find someone who weighs 300 lbs. and try to pull them through the driver's window on a car and see how well that works out.

The forensics do not back DJ's story. They positively prove that he lied. Johnson has a long history of lying, and he's been proven to have lied repeatedly in this incident.

It was not Brown that charged at Wilson that closed that 82 foot gap to 35 feet. It was Wilson chasing Brown. That's not disputed.

So Wilson dragged a 300-lb. dead body fifty feet back toward his cruiser after shooting Brown? And NOBODY noticed? And NO evidence of a blood trail from a dragged body that had two head wounds?

How does that happen?