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Radio caller: Michael Brown rushed officer
KOCO - Oklahoma City ^ | August 18, 2014 | Steve Kastenbaum, Holly Yan and Michael Pearson CNN

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at koco.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackkk; eyewitness; ferguson; fergusonshooting; gentlegiant; michaelbrown; missouri
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yep, but I guarantee with the present Dept of JustUs it will never happen.


81 posted on 08/18/2014 1:22:57 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

agree, but that isn’t Barry/Administration/Jackson/Sharpton/MSM’s style. Trial by media is.


82 posted on 08/18/2014 1:23:56 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

AND there is the same account from a you tube audio....


83 posted on 08/18/2014 1:25:15 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: digger48

Will I stand to be corrected about the Ferguson Mayor. I saw a picture of him online last week and he appeared to me to be dark but the online bio states that he is a republican.


84 posted on 08/18/2014 1:27:27 PM PDT by brydic1
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To: joshua c
The autopsy showed a gunshot to the top of his head.

I know. But that's not the forehead.

85 posted on 08/18/2014 1:27:38 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

” detailed knowledge of the investigation”

Is not a valid source for confirmation. Though it may be true. It’s a cheesy source that reeks of internal agenda.


86 posted on 08/18/2014 1:30:18 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (I don't have a soul, I'm a soul that has a body. -- Unknown)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Its also the only account that makes sense with the evidence.

the media liars are revealed once again for pulling yet another duke lacrosse, trayvon racial hoax.

But of course they will keep going anyway, they’re in full agenda pushing mode now, the truth can’t be allowed to stand in their way.


87 posted on 08/18/2014 1:30:40 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up somewhere. Rethink it dummy)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So Stooper Mike wanted to play chicken with a cop and his sidearm.

Looks like Stuper Mike found his Kryptonite.

So dont forget kiddies todays lesson: Bold and stupid makes you dead.


88 posted on 08/18/2014 1:49:31 PM PDT by Gasshog (DemoKKKrats: Leaders of the Free Sh!t World)
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To: brydic1

Dooley is only County Executive until the end of the year. He was defeated in the Democratic primary two weeks ago.


89 posted on 08/18/2014 1:51:41 PM PDT by writmeister
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To: Dick Bachert

Cameras, etc., are fine with me, but do you really think it would have made any difference whatever the film showed? The pro-riot constituency (some blacks, Democrats, media) would dismiss it or say it shows the exact opposite of what is really depicted. Parks & Crump just claimed their private autopsy proves Brown was shot from behind, while standing next to their own diagram that shows front wounds only. Publicly treating dishonest idiots and criminals as if they were credible citizens is the pc order of the day. Will not end well.


90 posted on 08/18/2014 2:06:53 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: missnry
The media is 99% responsible for what is going on in Ferguson!

No, no, no...they truly get 50%, but you're letting the race whores, the communisty organizers and the Obama administration off the hook completely.

Of course, they're all RATs including the city government. In that case you could give them 100%

91 posted on 08/18/2014 2:18:05 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

The media gets more credit than you give them. The media is the one that allows them to speak, unchallenged, in the public arena. The media is the one that suppresses the information that shows them for who they are. Without the media, the race pimps would be merely hustling little old ladies out of their social security checks, and would not be threatening to destroy the greatest country the world has ever known.

No, the media deserves the bulk of the blame. Hustlers are going to always exist. But it is the media that makes them what they are.

And I wouldn’t let the GOP off lightly, either. It is the GOP who abrogated their role as the opposition to the left (which encompasses other types of hustling, not just race based). A GOP which actually stood for principle, and was able to articulate a vision, and articulate the counter to the hustling, would be able to get that unified message above the media, and reduce them to what they are — people who would be hard-pressed to find employment in any real profession.

The race hustlers, the Obama administration — these are symptoms. The cause lies elsewhere.


92 posted on 08/18/2014 2:26:32 PM PDT by jjsheridan5 (Remember Mississippi -- leave the GOP plantation)
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To: jjsheridan5

They’re all hooked together. Joined by the Soviet Union, back in the 60s.


93 posted on 08/18/2014 2:29:49 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Global communism has exploited black people for years. Some realize it, many don’t. Go back to Paul Robeson and see how they still lionize him on the left, as if he was the best black role model they could come up with from a generation that included Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Cab Calloway.


94 posted on 08/18/2014 2:56:24 PM PDT by RaveOn ("No amount of logic can shatter a faith consciously based on a lie." Lamar Keene, "True Believers")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

95 posted on 08/18/2014 2:58:02 PM PDT by jaz.357 (Contrary To Ordinary)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Finally, the truth.


96 posted on 08/18/2014 3:15:26 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Chewbarkah

Crump should be DISBARRED for saying multiple times during that alleged press conference this am that the cop EXECUTED Brown.
If the goal is to inflame the situation and keep Ferguson burning, that’s the sort of language that will do it.


97 posted on 08/18/2014 3:32:41 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Dick Bachert

Heck yes. Crump should be disbarred:
1) for crimes against the English language;
2) for manufacturing and distorting evidence in the Martin case; and,
3) for his deliberate lies and efforts to stir up violence in the Brown case. If is obvious that he wants to use mob terror to intimidate weak-minded politicians into “makin’ a arriss”, which somehow opens legal gates to the $ivil $uit$ he craves.

Is he even admitted before the bar in Missouri? Or expectng “courtesy” if/when he files any action? The MO bar should shoot that down like a berserk gangbanger in the road.


98 posted on 08/18/2014 4:25:00 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Gasshog
Michael Brown rushed officer...

That's why democrats didn't want the video released. It showed a pattern to the gentle giant's anger.

When the store owner attempted to stop Brown - what happened? Rather than just pushing the store owner out of the way and walking out, he turns back to threaten him.

I suspect that's what happened with the police officer. He turned back to threaten him... Brown knew he had just committed a robbery and he was on an aggression high... it was the cop who didn't know about the robbery. Brown thought he was about to be apprehended - fight or flight turned into 'fight'. Wilson was blindsided.

99 posted on 08/18/2014 4:46:47 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Looted store owners in Ferguson should to sue the city. They paid for police protection - got none)
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To: Gasshog
Michael Brown rushed officer...

That's why democrats didn't want the video released. It showed a pattern to the gentle giant's anger.

When the store owner attempted to stop Brown - what happened? Rather than just pushing the store owner out of the way and walking out, he turns back to threaten him.

I suspect that's what happened with the police officer. He turned back to threaten him... Brown knew he had just committed a robbery and he was on an aggression high... it was the cop who didn't know about the robbery. Brown thought he was about to be apprehended - fight or flight turned into 'fight'. Wilson was blindsided.

100 posted on 08/18/2014 4:47:40 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Looted store owners in Ferguson should to sue the city. They paid for police protection - got none)
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