I heard on the radio driving home last night that the officer had injuries to his face.
It will be interesting to see what all the actual evidence is. They also said Michael was running away and was shot in the back (not sure if their info was from this same “witness” or not, but IIRC they mentioned it was Michael’s friend who had ducked behind a car).
An initial story I heard was that the officer asked Michael and his friend, who were walking down the middle of the street, to move to the sidewalk, they kept walking, he asked again, then when he stopped the car and opened the door, Michael essentially jumped him inside the car, tried to grab his gun and a shot went off.
So, my initial thought was that it was an accidental shooting. It will be more difficult to explain if Michael was shot in the back, but we don’t know what was said or what transpired inside the car.
an account by his companion said that the cop spoke or yelled at the kids for walking in the street,
then cop came up alongside and tried to open the car door forcefully into the victims to make them stop
the car door was pushed back or recoiled back from the victim’s body, further angering the cop
After the car door was slammed back, did the cop try to grab the kid through his car window to stop him from running away?
Companion said kid was tangled with cop inside his car window and kid kept saying “I don’t have a gun”
when he got loose of the car window and started running the cop shot him in the back, then followed and kept shooting him
Here it is:
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) – Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson said on Wednesday the officer involved in the shooting of a black, unarmed teenager last weekend had been injured during the incident and was treated in the hospital for swelling on the side of his face.
What do you bet that it’s swelling to the left side of his face —