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

[Travelman]

246. No, I mean the ones that the court and his attorney have tacitly admitted to

The state effectively admitted that Brown did have class C and D felonies. They admitted that he had no class A or B felonies, and the court said it would review whether to release the remainder of Brown's record. That is a tacit admission that there are other felonies on his record. If there were no felonies on his record, then they simply would have stated that, but they knew that they couldn't because that would be perjury.

Benjamin Crump admitted the same. He refuses to discuss whether Brown had any juvenile record, and instead keeps insisting that there was no "serious" felonies in Brown's juvenile record.



The ONLY possible conclusion is that Michael Brown did indeed have "lower" felonies on his record.



Does that fact somehow justify the shooting? No. Absolutely not. Not just no, but hell no. No more than the theft of the cigarillos a few minutes before justified the shooting. But it does show that Michael Brown was not even remotely the "gentle giant" that he was made out to be.

If people are genuinely interested in justice, then ALL of the facts have to come out, warts and all. Reasonable people can understand and agree that even if Michael Brown had a juvenile record for felonious behavior, even if he had just committed a strong-arm robbery, even if he actually had a history of rather thuggish behavior, that still does not justify a shooting. Only empirical evidence showing that Brown was a threat to Wilson after the incident in the car will definitively show that Wilson was justified, and to date, I haven't seen such evidence.



It's sort of like the First Amendment: the biggest test is whether one can defend someone's rights for speech that you absolutely abhor. In the case of Michael Brown (and indeed anyone else who may get killed in some unjustified fashion), the real test is whether you can stand up for Brown even though he was not exactly an ideal character. In my case, I'll do exactly that: Brown was NOT exactly the perfect person, but he STILL had the right to not be killed by the state, at least not without due process or some other DAMN good reason, and SO FAR, I haven't seen such a damn good reason.