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Let us look at some of the testimony.
Officer Wilson
"Just coming straight at me like he was going to run right through me. And when he gets about that 8 to 10 feet away, I look down, I remember looking at my sites and firing, all I see is his head and that's what I shot.
"I don't know how many, I know at least once because I saw the last one go into him. And then when it went into him, the demeanor on his face went blank, the aggression was gone, it was gone, I mean, I knew he stopped, the threat was stopped.
"When he fell, he fell on his face."
He fired two coup de gras shots, as I have stated on multiple posts, as Brown was in his death throes, staggering toward Brown, who had run over 100 feet to confront him, who had fired twelve rounds, and had hit Brown four times prior to the final two coup de gras.
Wilson sighted his Sig .40 at Brown, from between two and ten feet, depending on testimony, and pumped one round through his eye and jaw, and the last round through the crown of Brown's head, passing through his neck, and into his chest.
The two da for the county asked no questions, and did no cross exam, of any of the bolded points.
These are just the tip of the iceberg on what would have been brought up in a trial.
Or how about this one....
The medical investigator took no photos
The medical investigator did not take photographs at the scene of Brown's killing because the camera battery had died, the grand jury heard.
The investigator, who goes to the crime scene to collect evidence for the pathologist, also did not take measurements of anything at the scene because they "didn't need to."
The investigator, whose name was redacted, said: "It was self-explanatory what happened. Somebody shot somebody. There was no question as to any distances or anything of that nature at the time I was there."
Typically, a medical investigator will take crime scene photos in addition to the ones taken by police investigators.
The investigator testified that they did not see evidence of "stippling" (gunpowder) around the wounds on Brown's body.
I know a single medical photographer for the county. For their travel kit bag, they are required to have a second complete battery pack for their scene camera. Oftentimes, they carry a third on their fanny pack. But here it was immaterial to the investigation to measure the furthest point where Wilson's blood trail stopped, relative to where he dropped dead. Kinda hard to have independant documented photo evidence when the photographer "accidently" doesn't have batteries to power the camera.
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