#BreakingNews: What Really Happened in #Ferguson. Please Read: Hope Justice is Served!!!!!!!!!!!
So according to CNN, this is what may have happened.
What
happened when Michael Brown met Officer Darren Wilson according to cnn.
By Rachel Clarke and Christopher Lett, CNN
Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot dead on
August 9 by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. Some witnesses say the
teenager assaulted the officer at the outset and tried to grab his gun; other
witnesses say Wilson was the aggressor. All accounts agree that Brown ran and
then turned back ... but to attack or surrender? Below is a timeline from both
perspectives on what may have happened that afternoon.
All times are local CT.
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What
witnesses say
What
law officials and a Wilson family friend say
11 a.m. to Noon, Saturday August 9
Officer Darren Wilson responds to a call of a sick person.
At the store. 11:51 a.m., Saturday
August 9
Dorian Johnson and Michael Brown go to Ferguson Market and
Liquor. Surveillance video captures a man pushing a clerk before walking out of
the store with a box of cigarillos.
Johnson's attorney, Freeman Bosley, confirms Johnson and
Brown were there.
"My client, Dorian Johnson, he [told investigators about] the
situation involving Big Mike taking the cigarillos. This is not a theft, it's
more of a shoplifting situation."
At the store. 11:51 a.m. Saturday
August 9
Someone at Ferguson Market and Liquor, a convenience store
at 9101 W. Florissant Avenue, places a 911 call.
The next minute a dispatcher gives a description of a
suspect over radio. A different officer arrives at the store where the alleged
strong-arm robbery occurred.
The dispatcher relays information from a witness that the suspect
is walking toward the QuikTrip at 9420 W. Florissant Ave.
On Canfield Drive, First Encounter
Brown, 18, and Johnson, 22, are walking in the middle of the
street, heading, Johnson says, to Johnson's house, when a Ferguson police
officer confronts them.
The officer tells the young men either "Get the f*** on
the sidewalk" or "Get the f*** out of the street," according to
Johnson's accounts to CNN and other news outlets.
The young men reply that they are "not but a minute away from
our destination, and we would shortly be out of the street," Johnson told
CNN.
On Canfield Drive, First Encounter
Wilson leaves the scene of the sick call and encounters
Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson on Canfield Drive.
"Josie," a purported friend of the family, relays
what she says Wilson's "significant other" told her about what he
said happened next. The account matches what Wilson has told investigators, a
source tells CNN.
Josie: "They were walking in the middle of the street.
He rolled his window down and said, 'Come on guys. Get out of the street.' They
refused to and were yelling back, saying we're almost where we're going and
there was some cussing involved."
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson also said Wilson
approached Brown because he was "walking down the middle of the street,
blocking traffic."
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson speaks.
Tussle, first shot
The officer drives away but then puts the car in reverse and
backs up rapidly. The car slants, almost hitting Johnson and Brown, Johnson
tells CNN.
"We were so close, almost inches away, that when he
tried to open his door aggressively, the door ricocheted both off me and Big
Mike's body and closed back on the officer," Johnson said.
Still in his car, the officer grabs Brown by his neck,
Johnson said. Brown tries to pull away, but the officer keeps pulling Brown
toward him, he said.
Johnson: "My friend, Big Mike, very angrily is trying
to pull away from the officer."
The officer draws his weapon. He says "'I'll
shoot" or "I'm about to shoot." "I'm standing so close to
Big Mike and the officer, I look in his window and I see that he has his gun
pointed at both of us. And when he fired his weapon, I moved seconds before he
pulled the trigger. I saw the fire come out the barrel and I instinctually knew
it was a gun. I looked at my friend Big Mike and saw he was struck in the chest
or upper region because I saw blood spatter down his side."
Johnson: "At no point in time did they struggle over
the weapon because the weapon was already drawn on us."
Dorian Johnson, Michael Brown's friend, describes the shooting
Bosley says Brown still has the cigarillos taken from the
store in his hand so he was trying to maneuver himself away from the officer.
Tiffany Mitchell, who was picking up a colleague to go to
work, said she saw some of the confrontation. Wilson and Brown were
"tussling through the window." "It looked as if the kid was
pulling away and the officer was pulling him in." "A shot was fired
through the window."
Piaget Crenshaw, Mitchell's co-worker, said she saw what happened
from her apartment while waiting for Mitchell: "The officer was just
trying to pull him into the vehicle – that's just what it looked like."
Tussle, first shot
Josie: "So he goes in reverse back to them. He tries to
get out of his car. They slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael
[Brown] did. Then he opens his car again and tries to get out and as he stands
up Michael just bum rushes him, and just shoves him back into his car, punches
him in the face and then of course Darren grabs for his gun and Michael grabs
the gun. At one point he's got the gun totally turned against his hip and then
he shoves it away and the gun goes off."
"The genesis of this was a physical
confrontation," St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said.
Wilson tries to exit his vehicle but Brown pushes him back
into the car, according to the preliminary investigation, Belmar said.
Brown physically assaults the police officer and there is a
struggle over the officer's gun, Belmar said.
A shot is fired inside the police car.
Brown's wounds included a shot to the hand from close range,
the official autopsy found, according to a report in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch newspaper, the source of which was confirmed as genuine to CNN by
a county official.
Brown's blood was found on Wilson's uniform and inside the
police car, law enforcement sources told CNN.
At least one of the wounds and the blood could be consistent with
a struggle at the police car.
Brown runs, then turns
Johnson and a bloodied Brown take off running. Johnson hides
behind the first car he sees, according to Johnson's account. The officer gets
out of his car.
"I saw the officer proceeding after my friend Big Mike
with his gun drawn, and he fired a second shot and that struck my friend Big
Mike," Johnson told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"And at that time, he turned around with his hands up,
beginning to tell the officer that he was unarmed and to tell him to stop
shooting. But at that time, the officer fired several more shots into my
friend, and he hit the ground and died."
Bosley, Johnson's attorney, later clarifies that Brown's
hands were above his shoulders.
"The cop gets out of his vehicle shooting,"
Mitchell said. "(Brown's) body jerked as if he was hit from behind, and he
turned around, and he put his hands up. ... The cop continued to fire until he
just dropped down to the ground, and his face just smacks the concrete."
Crenshaw: "He started chasing after the boy. I'm
hearing shots fired ... one did graze him. ... At the end he just turned around
... and then was shot multiple times."
New audio, purportedly of the incident, shows two distinct bursts
of gunfire.
"He was running for his life and just got shot and
turned around and didn't try to reach for anything. He put his hands in the air
being compliant and he still got shot down like a dog."
Michael Brady says he saw the end of the confrontation:
"By the time I gets outside, he's already turned around, facing the
officer. He's balled up, he had his arms under his stomach and he was halfway
down, like he was going down, and the officer lets out three or four shots at
him."
A diagram from a second autopsy commissioned by the family shows
entry and exit wounds.
Brown runs, then turns
Josie: "Michael takes off with his friend. They get to
be about 35 feet away and Darren [Wilson], of course protocol is to pursue. So
he stands up and yells, ‘Freeze!' Michael and his friend turn around and
Michael starts taunting him. ‘Oh, what are you going to do about it? You're not
gonna shoot me.'
Josie: "And then he said all of a sudden [Michael] just
started to bum rush him. He just started coming at him full speed so [Wilson]
he just started shooting and he just kept coming. So [Wilson] really thinks
[Brown] was on something because he just kept coming. It was unbelievable. And
then so he finally ended up, the final shot was in the forehead and then he
fell about 2, 3 feet in front of the officer."
How many times did Officer Wilson shoot?
Jackson, Ferguson police chief, said Wilson was taken to a
local hospital and treated for a swollen face.
At least six bullets hit Michael Brown, including a fatal
shot to the head, the family's autopsy shows.
One bullet entered the top of Brown's head.
Outstanding questions
— Where are all the bullets? (Only three were recovered from
Brown's body.)
— Were other shots fired that missed Brown?
— What evidence is in the police car? Was a shot fired in
the car, as law enforcement officials say?
— What evidence is on Brown’s clothes? They were not
provided to the family pathologist, but the presence or lack of gunshot residue
could indicate from how far away the shots were fired. The clothes could also
show evidence of any confrontation between Brown and Wilson.
— What evidence of any confrontation was on Wilson’s body or
clothes of any confrontation?
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