re: Read this and explain to me how Darren Wilson is not charged with something

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casting a harsh light on the disproportionate number of black men killed by police, on St. Louis County’s exploitative and racially discriminatory municipal court system, and on the militarization of law enforcement.

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high hopes for college bound son

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Are we suppose to read what follows with the open mind the author left at the door? Just curious

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Indictment is a pretty low standard, so I will tend to believe it was a "good shooting" if the grand jury does not indict but who is to say they will get it right?

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Didn't Wilson testify to the GJ? This wasn't an ordinary GJ proceeding, FWIW.

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I am just trying to predict based on the reported witness statements (not under oath, I note).

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There's been a lot of talk that the witness statements, under oath, are somewhat different than the witness statements, not under oath.

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and ignoring witnesses the reports of 7 witenesses supporting the cop version, the official autopsy etc

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In late October, Brown’s official autopsy was leaked to the Post Dispatch. The 16-page report said that Brown had been shot nine times. Three of the shots entered Brown’s head — once in the top of the head, once in the right eye, and once in the “right central forehead” — two entered the chest, three entered the right arm, and one entered his right hand, “near his thumb and palm.”

“The official report notes an absence of stippling, powder burns around a wound that indicate a shot fired at relatively short range,” the paper reported.

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The day after the private autopsy results were revealed, a caller identifying herself as “Josie” phoned into The Dana Show, a conservative talk-radio program, and said she was a friend of Wilson’s. In a six-minute interview, Josie offered the officer’s version of the shooting, which largely foreshadowed the account Wilson ultimately gave to the grand jury.

“ were walking in the middle of the street,” Josie began. “[Wilson] rolled his window down and said, ‘Come on guys. Get out of the street.’ They refused to and were yelling back, saying we’re almost where we’re going and there was some cussing involved.”

Josie said Wilson had pulled ahead of the young men when he received a call over the radio about a strong-arm robbery. According to Josie, Brown and Johnson fit the description broadcast over the radio. “He goes in reverse back to them, tries to get out of his car, they slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael did,” Josie said.

“Then he opens his car again and tries to get out and as he stands up Michael just bum rushes him, and just shoves him back into his car, punches him in the face and then of course Darren grabs for his gun and Michael grabs the gun,” Josie added. “At one point he’s got the gun totally turned against his hip and then he shoves it away and the gun goes off.”

“Michael takes off with his friend,” she said. “They get to be about 35 feet away and Darren, of course protocol is to pursue. So he stands up and yells, ‘Freeze!’ Michael and his friend turn around and Michael starts taunting him. ‘Oh, what are you going to do about it? You’re not gonna shoot me.’”

“And then he said all of a sudden [Brown] just started to bum rush him,” Josie said. “He just started coming at him full speed so [Wilson] he just started shooting and he just kept coming. So [Wilson] really thinks [Brown] was on something because he just kept coming. It was unbelievable. And then so he finally ended up, the final shot was in the forehead and then he fell about 2, 3 feet in front of the officer.”

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Eyewitness for the officer and the official autopsy report?

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[b]all

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Fair point. There are more witnesses that could have been quoted.


ETA: No idea why my formatting is so jacked.

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I don't know enough to say what did or did not happen.


My best guess:

Wilson is an a-hole cop that MAY have acted precipitously.

Brown was an a-hole thug that MAY have acted provocatively



There is a legal process and a grand jury that will have heard much more evidence and I'll respect their decision.


However, in any case, acting like a wild pack of criminal assholes is a bad look (for both sides)

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I couldn't have said it better myself.

baybeefeetz


How long have you served as a peace officer ? Do you know the first thing about protocol in a deadly force encounter ? I'll answer both for you, ZERO.

If a perpetrator attempts to disarm you (we don't know yet but what was leaked showed there was a struggle for the weapon and shots fired inside the vehicle w/ Brown's blood on it) it is called a DEADLY FORCE encounter....... Now, if you are able to survive and maintain control, while creating distance, you are to announce to the perp that he is UNDER ARREST (as he committed a felony - attemtped disarming of a peace officer). If he does not comply and subsequently engages you again (whether he's 10 feet or 25 feet from you) he's coming to TAKE YOUR WEAPON AGAIN ! You are TAUGHT to SHOOT for center mass to stop the threat, if threat continues you may and have every right to attempt a HEAD SHOT to immediately stop the threat. Does this spell it out to you ? I don't know if this happened, but the distance is irrelevant if the perp continued to engage the officer after he already attempted to disarm him. As for as Johnson as a witness, well he has ZERO credibility as he has been proven to be a previous liar with a criminal record, while the autopsy disproving his accounts.

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Was he coming at Wilson? From how far away? Should Wilson really have thought Brown posed a risk of serious bodiliy injury or death to him if he had only "stumbled" toward him, as some have said.

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A three hundred pound monster punches you in the eye, grabs for your gun, takes off running then in a split second, charges back at you. You have less than 15 seconds to react.

Whadda ya do?

There should be enough to grant an indictment, if not an actual guilty verdict. Obviously the background on the prosecutor is bad and he should have never been on this case.

If anything we need to get a full account of the witness statements in public, under oath.