ZRX1200 wrote:
Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And Darren’s first protocol is to pursue, so he stands up and yells “Freeze!” Michael and his friend turn around, and Michael taunts him… And then all the sudden he [Brown] just started bum-rushing him; he just started coming at him full speed. And so he [Wilson] just started shooting. And he just kept coming. And so he [Wilson] really thinks he was on something.
I can't find the info, but I read that he was about 33-35 ft from the cop car (dead)... not sure how much "full speed" charging he could do while only making it about 2 ft... This is something I can't figure out.
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What should one conclude? IJReview.com makes the following point :
It’s far too unlikely that these two accounts are similar accidentally, having been from such disparate sources. The seeming witness in the background conversation is speaking with detail about the tragic shooting, and in a manner that runs contrary to the widespread version. Those who watch the video need to judge for themselves if the witness sounds reliable (but he would seemingly have nothing to gain by telling such a story.) [sic]
This bothers me. I mean.. I know there are 2 sides to every story. And I know people color their story with their own motivations... but this article is giving credibility to overheard stuff simply because it is agreeing with the position they want. Personally, I want video.
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IJReview.com also points out that if the toxicology report shows that Brown had taken something, that would explain why he might have rushed at an officer pointing a gun at him — and how he did so after being shot — it could help close the book on this story. (Having said this, personal anecdote: A man in my old neighborhood once became hysterical and tried to charge a gun-wielding criminal who wanted to steal his radio. He wasn’t on drugs, either. Lesson? Emotion is sometimes enough to inspire irrational acts {the man’s friends held him back, saving his life}).
The striking eyewitness audio follows the release of a video showing Brown involved in the strong-arm convenience-store robbery Wilson was dispatched to investigate.The U.S. Department of Justice had pressured the Ferguson Police not to release the convenience-store video.
Blacks account for 50 percent of all U.S. homicide victims, which translates into approximately 7000 black people being murdered each year . Ninety-four percent of the time the killer is another black person.
These last 3 paragraphs really bother me as well. Lets look at them individually:
1st - "If the toxicology report"... this entire paragraph is intended to imply (with absolutely no evidence) that he was hopped up on drugs... to play into people's fears. "Michael Brown might have been on drugs" "Michael Brown might have been in an emotional state which made him irrational"... all this is worse than bad eye-witness reports... because it's pure speculation.
2nd - Michael Brown might have been a sh$t who stole stuff, but the cop didn't know that. That makes it kind of irrelevant to how the cop did or did not act.
3 - Why does the author decide to point out how many blacks are killed by blacks? Seriously... this is a sh#t argument on the face of it (since it has nothing to do with the topic) and below the surface it is a subversive sentence intended to make the reader think of Brown as a violent black man and therefore deserving of a harsher interaction with the police than a "normal" (read white) person.