Think about what we know about the death of Michael Brown.
Actually, we know very damned little. We know a man is dead, Michael Brown, shot by a police officer with the smallest digital footprint known to man. The dead man was black, the cop white.
People have said that Michael Brown was actively surrendering, with his hands raised, when he was shot, after having been shot in the back. We don't know that to be true. Largely the same people characterized Michael Brown as a "Gentle Giant", and the video from the store could certainly reasonably call that characterization into question.
What appears to be something resembling the cop's version has also been floated, claiming Michael Brown attacked the cop in his vehicle, attempted to take his sidearm resulting in at least one discharge, moved some distance from the vehicle and them "Bum Rushed" the cop, at which time he was shot an unspecified number of times. We do not know that to be true either. There is, however, audio on a video, (starting about 6:25 here) shot very shortly after the shooting wherein an apparent witness describes to another person what he saw, and his description is pretty consistent with the cop's apparent version, and the video was posted to YouTube well before the radio appearance in Dallas. We don't know that version to be true either.
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