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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Brown was hit by one bullet, then—as Brown pleaded for his life — Wilson fired “five or six” more" [View all]
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The fact that more than 400 black men and boys have been killed by white cops every year in America since 2005 should make all of us viscerally sick. (And that is a number from less than 1/2 of the law enforcement agencies because the others don't report such figures to the FBI.)http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/14/police-killings-data/14060357/
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In Ferguson, three minutes and two lives forever changed
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A key witness Browns friend Dorian Johnson has told the FBI that he thought the robbery was a prank, said Johnsons attorney. In an interview with federal agents, Johnson has said Brown was hit by one bullet, then as Brown pleaded for his life Wilson fired five or six more times.
And when the shooting stopped, Johnson and his legal team have told investigators, the police officer who pulled the trigger did nothing to save the man hed just shot. The officer doesnt attempt to resuscitate, Johnsons attorney, former St. Louis mayor Freeman Bosley Jr., said in an interview Saturday. He does not call for medical help. The officer didnt call it in that someone had been shot.
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Both men are now forever entwined with Ferguson, but neither had particularly deep roots here.
Brown was only spending the summer with his grandmother while making plans to attend a vocational school. Wilson was in his fourth year on the police force after working for two years on a force nearby. He lives miles away in a house with a swimming pool in the suburb of Crestwood.
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Way More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-three-minutes--and-two-lives-forever-changed/2014/08/16/f28f5bc0-2588-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
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A key witness Browns friend Dorian Johnson has told the FBI that he thought the robbery was a prank, said Johnsons attorney. In an interview with federal agents, Johnson has said Brown was hit by one bullet, then as Brown pleaded for his life Wilson fired five or six more times.
And when the shooting stopped, Johnson and his legal team have told investigators, the police officer who pulled the trigger did nothing to save the man hed just shot. The officer doesnt attempt to resuscitate, Johnsons attorney, former St. Louis mayor Freeman Bosley Jr., said in an interview Saturday. He does not call for medical help. The officer didnt call it in that someone had been shot.
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Both men are now forever entwined with Ferguson, but neither had particularly deep roots here.
Brown was only spending the summer with his grandmother while making plans to attend a vocational school. Wilson was in his fourth year on the police force after working for two years on a force nearby. He lives miles away in a house with a swimming pool in the suburb of Crestwood.
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Way More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-three-minutes--and-two-lives-forever-changed/2014/08/16/f28f5bc0-2588-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
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Nurse On Site Was Not Allowed to Tend Mike Brown
From a NY Times report:
Mr. Stone ran outside and saw two police officers, both both white men, standing near Mr. Brown, who was lying on his stomach, his arms at his sides, blood seeping from his head. Another neighbor, a woman who identified herself as a nurse, was begging the officers to let her perform CPR.
They refused, Mr. Stone said, adding, They didnt even check to see if he was breathing.
MORE:
http://breakingbrown.com/2014/08/report-nurse-was-not-allowed-to-perform-cpr-on-michael-brown/
From a NY Times report:
Mr. Stone ran outside and saw two police officers, both both white men, standing near Mr. Brown, who was lying on his stomach, his arms at his sides, blood seeping from his head. Another neighbor, a woman who identified herself as a nurse, was begging the officers to let her perform CPR.
They refused, Mr. Stone said, adding, They didnt even check to see if he was breathing.
MORE:
http://breakingbrown.com/2014/08/report-nurse-was-not-allowed-to-perform-cpr-on-michael-brown/
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UPDATE, just found this:
Singer Thee Pharoah, 27, witnessed Michael Brown being shot by Officer Darren Wilson outside his Ferguson, Missouri, apartment Saturday
The rapper shared two photos from the crime scene, one of them showing Brown's corpse in the street
Thee Pharoah wrote that Brown was running when he was shot twice in the back and five more times as a 'barrage' after he turned around
The rapper shared two photos from the crime scene, one of them showing Brown's corpse in the street
Thee Pharoah wrote that Brown was running when he was shot twice in the back and five more times as a 'barrage' after he turned around
(Picture removed -in respect to his mother)
Pharoah shared a picture of a police officer, believed to be unrelated to the shooting, walking with a rifle in his hand near the victim's body hidden from view by a screen
(pictures here are graphic, but revealing):
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2726416/I-just-saw-die-Rapper-live-tweets-Michael-Brown-shooting-shares-graphic-photo-teens-body-street-victims-family-accuse-Ferguson-police-character-assassination.html#ixzz3AekzD9Xg
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AND THEN THERE IS THIS:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5397761
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UPDATED TO INCLUDE:
Another witness has emerged in the shooting of Michael Brown:
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Mitchell told News 4 she saw a door close on a police car. An officer was inside and Brown, Jr. was on the outside. She said the two were arm wrestling through the car window. Mitchell said she then tried to pull out her phone to record. Shots then rang out.
It just didnt look right for them to be arm wrestling, Mitchell said. The first gun shot came from the window, so I just started getting out of the way.
According to Mitchell, Brown, Jr, began to run away after the first shot was fired.
After the shot, the kid just breaks away. The cop follows him, kept shooting, the kids body jerked as if he was hit. After his body jerked he turns around, puts his hands up, and the cop continues to walk up on him and continues to shoot until he goes all the way down, Mitchell said.
MORE PLUS VIDEO:
http://www.kmov.com/special-coverage-001/Another-witness-to-Michael-Brown-Jr-shooting-speaks-to-News-4-271139501.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/14/1321564/-New-witness-steps-forward-in-Michael-Brown-shooting-provides-new-video
************ANOTHER UPDATE HERE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/18/1322540/-Autopsy-suggests-Mike-Brown-had-his-arms-in-surrender-position-when-Darren-Wilson-killed-him
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"Brown was hit by one bullet, then—as Brown pleaded for his life — Wilson fired “five or six” more" [View all]
kpete
Aug 2014
OP
I don't know how or how long it will take tol get to this point, but they need to have
Lars39
Aug 2014
#5
Interesting sociological data point: average family income in Ferguson: $36,000. Average
VanGoghRocks
Aug 2014
#15
If he shot first and wounded Brown paused then fired more rounds into him that is premeditated.
gordianot
Aug 2014
#38
My understanding is the same, also Police have an added burden with Standard Operating Procedures.
gordianot
Aug 2014
#47
You are wrong about 1st degree.It does not require much advance planning at all, certainly not
kath
Aug 2014
#60
When telling the truth about someone becomes "demonizing" maybe someone needs to act differently?
TheKentuckian
Aug 2014
#44
REALLY??!! What would you prefer people to do, hang a halo around his head? HE FUCKING
Ecumenist
Aug 2014
#78
Wow. The WaPo was all pissed at the cops the other day, after what cops did to their reporter.
kath
Aug 2014
#72
There was no "wrestling". The cop called him over to the car, there were words exchanged,...
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2014
#50
Saw that. Wasn't there in the panning video of him dead in the street....
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2014
#49
Has even 1 Cop lost his job over this sh-t, or is the inJustice System that f'ing broken in this
blkmusclmachine
Aug 2014
#75