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Thursday, 08/21/2014 12:35:07 PM

Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:35:07 PM

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Video would have shown this by FPD...

WED AUG 20, 2014 AT 06:59 PM PDT
Ferguson PD Confirms Officer Wilson Shot at Brown as He Ran Away

by ericlewis0Follow
From Little Green Footballs:

A New York Times report on the huge differences between the accounts of eyewitnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown and accounts from Ferguson police doesn’t have much new information (if you’ve been following LGF, anyway), but it does show once again how consistent all the eyewitness accounts have been.
However, one new detail is very striking — because it’s the first time I’ve seen police admit that officer Darren Wilson actually fired his weapon at Michael Brown as he was running away.

Here’s the key section:

However, law enforcement officials say witnesses and forensic analysis have shown that Officer Wilson did sustain an injury during the struggle in the car.

As Officer Wilson got out of his car, the men were running away. The officer fired his weapon but did not hit anyone, according to law enforcement officials.


http://www.nytimes.com/...

As Charles Johnson at LGF says, this is a "big admission". Although the autopsy suggests none of these shots struck Michael Brown, it explains why more than one eyewitness described his having been shot in the back. Several eyewitnesses said that after these shots were fired, Brown turned around with his hands in the air.

I'm so thoroughly disgusted by this tragedy and veering on the point of Ferguson overload. It's enough to make me wonder if posting this diary helps more than it hurts. I hope the former.

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