Comment from dkos diary speculating on the audio with shots. I don't know where he get's Wilson's account from tho, whether it was that person calling the radio stations or if he actually has a statement out somewhere.
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The first burst is 6 shots, then a pause, then five or possibly six. For Wilson's account to be legit, he would have had to hit Brown 6 out of 6 in the second volley after missing him entirely with the first.
By Wilson's account, Brown got maybe 35 feet from the vehicle, ultimately dying 10-20 feet from it after he turned around. If that's true, Wilson went from being a terrible shot at a running man to being a great shot at a running man, over roughly the same distance out and back.
If the witnesses are correct, and Brown jerked "as if" he was hit, then Wilson likely clipped him in the first volley (likely the inner bicep hit that the coroner said was possibly back-to-front - and a spot that isn't easy to hit from the front, even by chance) and, after a pause, hit him with 5 out of 5 or 6 in the second volley.
That seems an odd change of accuracy, unless Brown was moving more slowly (or not at all). That would be consistent with some reports that Brown was either walking back or standing, hands raised, when he was shot (that would also account for the palm hit - odd if someone is sprinting, from any angle - and why the other arm hits all managed to be at largely the same angle of entry, which would be unlikely if the arm was vigorously moving in a sprint).
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or at least...
...the gun went off inside the car. And yes, if Wilson had drawn his gun already (I heard a retired police officer refer to the strong possibility that Wilson had "broken leather" while still in the car) with one hand while attempting to hold Brown with the other (several witnesses say they believe Brown was trying to pull away and Wilson was trying to pull him into the car through the window), then trying to get control of the gun, if only to push it away, sounds an awful lot like trying to save his own life. It won't surprise me at all to hear that Brown's fingerprints were on the gun.
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I agree as well
So that's one moment where Wilson contemplated using deadly force or tried to with a shot.
Then, allegedly, he gets out of his cruiser and tries again as Brown is running away with the first volley of shots heard on the audio.
Then, his finishes Brown off with the second volley - after he's had a few second to deliberate that.
This officer seemed pretty determined to use deadly force as he made the decision to do so three separate times.
I think the audio is helpful to illustrate that.
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10-11 shots, 6 hit? something isnt adding up!
If the audio is real....I think it's damning to Wilson. I counted 10 possibly 11 shots. We know that he was hit 6 times... that means only 4-5 shots missed. So we're to believe that the officer was assaulted then Mike ran atleast 25 ft away and then decided to turn around while being shot at and decided to run right back into the fire to attack the man shooting him? He fired 6 shots first while mike was running which means atleast 1-2 had to have hit him at that point because we know he was shot mostly in the front so that means the last 4-5 were shots were after he turned to surrender and none of which missed. The math doesn't add up... If we're to believe an account that favors the cop, that means we believe that all of the first 6 shots missed and that mike decided...now I'm gonna stop running away and turn around and bum rush him at a 90° angle from 25 feet away. Then all 6 shots hit him from the front with 4-5 bullets....
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Sprinting in FLIP FLOPS
I always thought this was a ridiculous explanation. Who's going to run away from a hail of bullets and then turn around and charge back at the officer?
And Michael Brown was wearing FLIP FLOPS... I defy anyone to sprint in flip flops. From the photos we can see the flip flops are still on his feet where they left him lying in the roadway.
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Here is the diary... it's short...just peep the comments....
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/...-audio-of-Michael-Brown-shooting-has-surfaced