Or he had too much trigger finger on the trigger.
During all my training over the years the instructors would always teach that if you have more than the first pad of your finger on the trigger then when you pull the extra muscle force draws the weapon down and to the left (if you are right handed).
The arm hits on Brown coincide to that theory as the arm wounds went from bottom to head (my supposition from my training) as Brown got closer to the cop. As the target got closer and larger Wilson adjusted his aim up to keep with where the center mass was located in his sight picture.
I’m currently going through “diagnostics” teaching my wife to shoot. She jerks the gun in anticipation. She shoots way low at 7:00 but actually prints pretty tight.
This might be a little uncomfortable to read and follow, but you know that good strategy includes putting ourselves in the shoes of others. Otherwise, “pride” and all of that.
Take another look at the diagram in the examiner’s report. Hold your right arm down at your side and compare with the hit areas in the diagram. Then raise your right hand about halfway up, and notice the areas of the hits in the diagram again and the relationship to the area of the head. That’s going to be acted out and seen in a presentation in court.
Then, have a good listen to the following.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEmBhV8RB4
It’s doubtful that more than a dozen people were nearby, on that block, watching the actual incident happen. I lived in a much rougher neighborhood than Ferguson during the late 1970s, because it was much closer to work than where I lived before. There were over 300 unsolved homicides in that relatively small but densely populated city each year.
Did jury duty there, too. Most of the residents there were way against crime of any kind in their neighborhood, and only a handful of bad boys there (out of thousands) committed the violent crimes. Most of the residents talked with a different accent (southern accent but some of them with some different slang), but they weren’t really much different from those of other places I lived (the Ozarks, for example, and Texas).
Back to Ferguson...
The mystery caller, Josie, didn’t report that her friend’s “significant other,” Wilson, had any treatment or serious eye socket injury, even though the incident happened nine or ten days before her call.
A general report of injuries and physical condition of an injured policeman (I’m old fashioned) are commonly immediately reported by the press, even if without reporting his name. Why haven’t journalists published copies of the police report? Copies are routinely made available to the public. Where are the copies of his call to dispatch after the incident?