Police Release Bare-Bones Reports On The Michael Brown Shooting

A protester shouts as she moves away from a line of riot police in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, i... A protester shouts as she moves away from a line of riot police in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, J.B. Forbes) MORE LESS
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Local police have now released two incident reports on the Michael Brown shooting, which media and advocates have been pressing for since the Aug. 9 shooting in Ferguson, Mo.

The St. Louis County police, which has been the lead investigative agency, released their report Wednesday, according the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri. The Ferguson police released their report Thursday. But both have redactions, the ACLU said, and they contain almost no information that was not already public.

The ACLU called on local authorities “to begin building public trust and the first step is to release a complete copy of the incident report.”

A grand jury has begun hearing evidence on the shooting, and the Justice Department is pursuing its own investigation of the shooting of Brown, 18, by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson earlier this month.

St. Louis County Police Shooting Report

Ferguson Police Shooting Report

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  1. Is that a joke ? They are basically blank and the date entered in reads 8-19-2014.

  2. How thorough!

  3. That’s some pathetic negligent shit. And that asshole cop is getting full pay while on leave from his undisclosed location. Fuck Officer Wilson. He clearly would rather get fired down the road than face the music of criminal behavior for the alleged act of killing this young man in cold blood. No other explanation makes sense.

    THE FPD SHOULD FIRE HIS ASS NOW!!!
    NOT PROVIDE FURTHER COVERUP FOR DERELICTION OF DUTY!!!

    BTW, this implicates the entire higher-ups of the Ferguson PD for accepting this report as part of a pretty obvious coverup. They too should be fired!!!

  4. This smells more and more like a police cover up to me. It also makes you wonder what information the district attorney has used for the grand jury.

  5. Avatar for thatpj thatpj says:

    It’s not the crime. It’s the coverup. But in this case it’s both.

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