I don’t see any wound on his back, entrance or exit. I suppose it’s possible there’s an entrance wound on the side not photographed but I don’t think such a shot would be at least immediately fatal. As the shot that killed him was.
Looking at that picture has changed things for me. I think it possible it went down like this:
Brown reaches for the gun, in a struggle he was shot once (not fatally) then starts to run away. The cop gets out of the car and orders him to stop, possibly firing a warning shot to get his point across.
He turns around, facing the cop (who most likely had his weapon drawn then), and he even maybe put his hands up. But only to give the cop pause, as his real intent (and final act) was to start running towards the cop again (thinking with his hands up he wouldn’t fire). But he did.
This scenario as I described fits all the reports we’ve heard till now. And it also fits what we see in the photos of the aftermath.
If that is the case as you described and evidence supports those facts - then the killing of the perp would be justified.
I’m reacting to the initial reports as cited by the police and the media at the scene when this went down that the perp was unarmed and shot several times while running away.
I’m still baffled that with the liberal use of tasters and mace these days why those were not used to affect an arrest.
That would be the goal right? Arrest and charge the perp with his crimes?
Or have we already moved to the point that govern police states and not civil society?