The New York Times has published the below linked story regarding the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ferguson-case-officer-is-said-to-cite-struggle.html?_r=0
Of particular note is the part about unnamed officials stating that there was a struggle inside of Officer Darren Wilson's patrol car and that investigation revealed that two shots were fired inside the vehicle. The information about Officer Wilson's facial injuries is also pertinent though still clouded in conflicting reports. If after all that truly happened, Brown charged Officer Wilson while Wilson had drawn his weapon, it seems to me that Wilson had every reason to fear that Brown could take his weapon from him and use it on him.
Again, we need to let all the facts come in before drawing a final conclusion.
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The "unnamed" individual is smart to be unnamed. With Eric Holder drooling to get a civil rights case out of Ferguson, using Al Sharpton as his counsel and President Obama's nose in the case and the New Black Panthers looking for trouble by jazzing up the majority Black population and the liberal led State government in Mo., who would not want to be anonymous. But the newly revealed evidence, if true, is stacking up to dissolve the case before it goes to a jury trial. Let's see, the Officers pummeled face, two rounds fired inside the patrol car, blood on the car and on the Officer's cloths from Brown's gunshot wound to the arm. We do need to see if there was the Officer's facial blood on Brown's hand, which would seal the deal.
Squid
The Obama Bunch will be beside itself, and get its skivvies in a humongous wad, if it is not able to bring race into this, which, at least according to this article and apparently its own investigators, may be becoming more and more difficult to do.
Eyewitness accounts are often, if not usually, both somewhat conflicting and unreliable. Take this quote from the article: " Some witnesses have said that he appeared to be surrendering with his hands in the air as he was hit with the fatal gunshots. Others have said that Mr. Brown was moving toward Officer Wilson when he was killed." In contrast the forensics, which do not and cannot lie, appear to support Officer Wilson's account.
And just how reliable is Brown's litle gangbanger buddy, Mr. Dorian Johnson?? Well, one good way to evaluate him is to put him under oath, under penalty of perjury (which of course may have already been done) and see if his testimony is consistent with his public statements, or if he recants/changes his story, or even "takes the Fifth".
I predict a Federal civil rights trial, no matter the evidence or lack of it, if Wilson either is not indicted by the state grand jury or, alternatively, is indicted but acquitted at trial, a la the Rodney King caper (How do you say Rodney King in Spanish?? Pinata).
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