Autopsy done by Michael Brown’s family contradicts 2 witnesses (one of the witnesses was involved with Brown in a robbery just minutes earlier). Autopsy showed that all of the shots were from the front, consistent with Brown charging at officer, none of the bullets hit him from the back, which would happen if the officer shot him, while he was running away
Posted on | August 18, 2014 | 1 Comment
A new witness to the killing of Michael Brown emerged Thursday, corroborating major details offered by the earlier witness, Dorian Johnson. Both described the initial interaction between the 18-year-old and the officer as a tug-of-war in which the officer grabbed the teenager as Brown tried to free himself from the officer’s grip through a car window.
In an interview with msnbc’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Tiffany Mitchell described hearing tires squeak and seeing “Michael and the officer wrestling through the [car] window.” Brown, she said, was struggling to get away while the officer continued to try to pull him closer. Concerned, Mitchell pulled out her phone, at which point she said the first shot was fired “through the window.” Mitchell then saw Brown break away from the officer’s grip and run down the street from the police vehicle.
“The officer gets out of his vehicle,” Mitchell said, “and he pursues him,” continuing to shoot at Brown. “Michael’s body jerks as if he was hit,” Mitchell explained, “and then he put his hands up,” and the officer continued to shoot at Brown until the teenager collapsed “all the way down to the ground.”
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August 18th, 2014 @ 2:16 pm
The person being interviewed may not realize that the culprit had just committed a crime, when the officer tried to take him into custody?