Posted on 08/14/2014 4:59:53 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Tiffany Mitchell, a woman who says she witnessed a police officer shoot and kill Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, shared her story during an appearance on CNN with her attorney Wednesday night.
Mitchell said she was driving when she saw Brown trying to pull away from an officer as the two were "tussling through a window."
She said she had hoped to get a video because the incident "just didn't look right," but failed to get her camera out in time.
"I didn't know exactly what was going on, but I knew it didn't look right for someone to be wrestling with the police through the police window, but I didn't get a video because a shot was fired through the window, so I tried to get out of the way," Mitchell said.
Mitchell then described what she saw happen between Brown and the police officer.
"As I pull onto the side, the kid, he finally gets away, he starts running. As he runs the police get out of his vehicle and he follows behind him, shooting," Mitchell said.
"And the kid's body jerked as if he was hit from behind, and he turns around and puts his hands up like this, and the cop continued to fire until he just dropped down to the ground and his face just smacks the concrete."
Mitchell clarified she heard a shot after she saw Brown trying to pull away from the cop, and said even after Brown turned to face the cop and put his hands in the air, "the cop continued to come up on him and shoot him until he fell down to the ground."
She said she counted "more than about five or six shots."
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I guess the autopsy will tell us. Until then, all we have is the word of rioters.
Sounds like a "Half Vast" comment to me.You must be a member of FR's "all cops are psychopathic murderers" crowd.And a pretty large crowd it is too.
And no...I don't believe that cops are always right.But just as I give members of our Armed Forces the benefit of the doubt when they're accused of atrocities I give cops the same benefit of the doubt until I see powerful evidence of wrongdoing.
Testimony of kids and chants by Reverend Al don't come close to constituting evidence...powerful or otherwise.At least not in my book.Perhaps *you're* the one who needs lessons in gullibility.
> Witnesses often lie when it’s to their benefit.
Law enforcement officers too — right???
Absolutely and any other government official for that matter including the current president. On that case I mentioned I had to interview over a thousand people just to find a small group who were all good, hardworking legal immigrants to tell me what really happened and the truth. I went behind them checking the facts from other witnesses, their backgrounds and their family members, explanations / reasons that they migth have told the truth (for money, revenge, or any other reasons).
If somebody grabs you by the arm, or neck, or shirt and you then struggle to get out of their grip and get away from them, is that “fighting”.
It would depend on the context or truth of the matter.
ahh spoken like a lawyer —
That’s why you have things like corroborating evidence — something that the shooting officer in this case doesn’t have.
Let me guess...overtaken in Juarez, Mexico as you made a good run but too slow. That about it?
Yes we will find out....but its pretty clear you have made up your mind already with your repeated use of “St Micheal”....
I’m not claiming he was a saint....I’m questioning the use of deadly force.
How does it feel to be Ubama's useful idiot?
You got that in writing?
A google search for this image indicates that this is one Joda Cain, not Michael Brown.
So you are engaged in lying about a dead man who cannot defend himself.
It’s never a good idea to flee from an officer if he’s “interviewing” you or doing a Terry frisk. I do understand the black perspective of white police officers but in all honesty many blacks are stopped because they are engaging in illegal or suspicious the activities given the reputation of neighborhoods they’re in and the time of day they’re there. Officers get o know where all the meth labs and crack houses are, where the prostitutes hang out, who operates underground gambling enterprises from their vice and narcotics squads so if they’re on patrol and they see Darrius Demetrus Davis wok up to a coach house door they probably know why he’s there.
Fact is, you have no facts. Just a desire to be a useful idiot.
> I’m not claiming he was a saint....I’m questioning the use of deadly force.
I agree. The use of deadly force is the issue here and what we all really want to. We shouldn’t take sides based on division of race but rather truth; good vs evil. If it were a black officer and he did the same to a white youth he should be convicted too.
Let’s be honest here for honesty’s sake. Since Obama took office, we’ve seen a totalitarian bent to policing many neighborhoods. SWAT teams get the wrong address, kill the wrong people....elderly couples sleeping in their beds, children’s dogs in their own yards, etc. without impunity. I know we are probably hearing the worst of it, but we might not even be hearing the most of it, to be honest. This administration has given some of the worst police departments a kind of power that the Stassi and KGB enjoyed before ‘the wall’ came down. I realize that in the “heat of the moment” serious mistakes can be made, but police are trained to deal with these, as well. These units are not all made up of rookies. Whatever happened to using tear gas or some other less harmful things to disperse a crowd and control a situation? We are seeing traumatic force used FIRST and foremost in situations that really should use restraint. And, yet, when is the last time you heard Obama call for restraint by the police? Massachusetts in 2009?
I’m tired of seeing these preventable situations. I think that Obama doesn’t care because he thinks after one of them surely there will be such chaos that he can call for suspension of the Constitution and insert marshall law.
We all know that he cares nothing for our Constitution and undermines it in every way he can. We MUST take up the battle for justice and pray diligently for our country, for his demise and for righteousness to return to the US. Folks, that means voting for righteous, not just electable, people to run and oversee the running of our country. And SHAME to those pastors who denigrate righteous people from running for office and denigrate the righteous for voting righteous people into office. I cannot see how you can really call yourselves true believers and hold your flocks back from supporting righteous men and women in office. If there was ever a time that we needed righteous people to be in office, it is now. Instead, you accuse righteous men and women of unrighteous acts and thoughts in order to slander them. That is beyond the pale! You play to the devices of Satan. You are fools and would make your own congregants the same.
Well, let’s see. The two facts I stated are that,
1) Witness testimonies to the police are admissible in court, and
2) Lying to the police will get you into trouble similar to that which perjury in court would.
Is it my understanding that you’re actually trying to dispute either of those claims?
Because you can’t “figure that out” Injuries. Simple, true and non-inflammatory to the current situation.
This will go to full court case where the armchairs will not be present, and hopefully none of their occupants here.
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