Posted on 08/18/2014 12:16:14 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
FERGUSON, Missouri (CNN) —The Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed Michael Brown says the teenager rushed at him full speed in the moments before the shooting, according to an account phoned into a St. Louis radio station and confirmed as accurate by a source with detailed knowledge of the investigation.
According to the account on KTFK, phoned in by a woman who identified herself as "Josie," the altercation began after Officer Darren Wilson rolled down his window to tell Brown and a friend to stop walking in the street.
When Wilson tried to get out of his cruiser, Brown first tried to push the officer back into the car, then punched him in the face and grabbed for his gun before breaking free after the gun went off once.
Wilson pursued Brown and his friend, ordering them to freeze, according to account. When they turned around, Brown began taunting Wilson, saying he would not arrest them, then ran at the officer at full speed, according to the caller.
Wilson then began shooting. The final shot was to Brown's forehead, and the teenager fell two or three feet in front of Wilson, the caller said.
The account matches Wilson's telling of events to investigators, according to the source.
If true, the account represents the first telling of events from the perspective of Wilson, whose shooting of Brown has touched off nightly protests and violence in the suburban St. Louis city.
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It’s all falling apart, right before their eyes, just like Trayvon. What magic will the third autopsy have to produce to stem the flow? “I heard wet grass.”
The truth won’t matter to the savages rampaging through the town. They just want to loot, steal, and destroy. They could care less about the truth in the Brown case.
The media is 99% responsible for what is going on in Ferguson!
Dorian Johnson said he hid behind a car when the shooting started, but it’s possible that he started circling around behind the officer and the policeman may have felt he had no choice but to take out the immediate threat.
They know what happened and they don’t care. They will act out their hatred.
Browns wounds reflect this statement.
Now we got taunting.....that’s like a double dog dare!
That jives with what was on the video. Now if the caller is for real or not is the question. If she is there will be a ton of pressure on her not to say anything. Snitches get stiches.
for later
Account doesn’t match community narrative. Must be made in a manner to avoid becoming a Race Traitor.
WHY THE HELL didn’t the POLICE CHIEF TELL US he was PUNCHED in the FACE and the gun went off when the “gentle giant” grabbed for his gun????? GEESH....all this LOOTING and BURNING and DESTROYING COULD have been prevented!!!
I heard on the radio that its Holder and Jarrett orchestrating this with a little help form Sharpton’s camp. Kind of government promoted crime for the President. A way to energize their base.
Spoiling for a confrontation... happens all the time.
Officers playing ‘chicken’ with their lives every day.
Note that Brown’s buddy, accomplice at the cigar robbery just minutes before, was NOT shot or injured in any way. Reason: Unlike Brown, he was NOT charging the police.
One bad apple on ANY police force is one bad apple too many.
COP CAMS would prevent many or ALL of these sorts of tragedies. (To be effective, these devices MUST be “ON” during the entire shift and any officer whose device fails to capture the event under investigation or attempts to defeat the device should be summarily dismissed.)
IF THE OFFICER IN THE MICHAEL BROWN SHOOTING HAD WORN A COP CAM, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THIS INCIDENT WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN SETTLED and Ferguson, MO wouldn’t be burning every night and Al Sharpton and the other racist agitators would have to get REAL jobs (if they could find them).
And let’s all remember that even cops and elected officials have families, any one of which could become the victim of the senseless act of some rogue cop who’s having a bad day and wants to pass it on.
If they roll it back to the point where they were struggling over the gun in the cruiser, we could have had one dead police officer and an armed teenager on the loose. Do you suppose there would have been riots and looting, calling in the state police, FBI, national guard, and DOJ?
Because if he said that, and it turned out not to be true, the looting and burning and rioting could have been even worse than it is...
Of course that is at odds with the legal maxim of "let justice be done even if the heavens fall." But that maxim dates to the bad old days before we were taught to be sensitive to racial sensitivities.
Those engaged in it from positions of authority should be open to prosecution under RICO statutes.
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