A private autopsy found Sunday that the unarmed black teenager killed by a white Ferguson, Mo. police officer was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, according to the New York Times.
Dr. Michael M. Baden, a former New York City chief medical examiner who conducted the autopsy at the request of 18-year-old Michael Brown’s family, told the newspaper one bullet that entered the top of Brown’s skill indicated his head was bent downward when he was shot. “It can be because he’s giving up, or because he’s charging forward at the officer,” Baden explained.
Baden told the Times that all the bullets were fired into Brown’s front and some entered and exited several times, producing numerous wounds. But Baden said no gunpowder was present on Brown’s body, suggesting the bullets were not shot from close range. He cautioned that he didn’t have access to Brown’s clothing, which could change that assessment.
Attorney General Eric Holder asked Sunday for the Justice Department to arrange a third autopsy on Brown’s body, citing the “extraordinary circumstances” involved in the case. He said the Justice Department will take the state of Missouri’s autopsy into account in its own investigation.
Nice explanation oh except the part where the wounds on the inside of his arms could not have come from charging forward at the officer. Try explaining those without Brown holding his hands up in the air when he was shot.
It appears he was standing with his hands in the air in surrender and was shot in the arm multiple times causing him to crumple at which point the rounds entered the top of his skill. Otherwise he…charged at the officer who shot him in the skull and then he threw his arms up and the officer shot those? Officer shot him in the inside of the arms as he was running away so he turned and charged the officer who then shot him in the skull?
Is there a police vehicle video of this event? If not, why not, and if so, why isn’t it public?
The narrative goes that the officer passed them in his car and then backed up to talk to them. Vehicle videos are generally of the scene in front of the vehicle. Which brings up the question of whether driving past them and backing up was done deliberately to avoid a record of the event.
Because, unlike the convenience store video, the cops can’t use it to demonize Mike Brown. They’re on page 2 of the Zimmerman Defense playbook – 173 pages to go.
Unfortunately, the cruisers in that town are not equipped with dash cams.