dailykos | This story just came out in the past two days. It has repeatedly been used as a cudgel by the racist assholes people defending the cop's killing of Michael Brown. This raises MANY questions ...
The claim is that during the alleged struggle through the open window
of the police cruiser, Michael hit the officer in the eye so hard that
it broke the bone and caused him to almost go unconscious.
Q - How was Michael Brown able to generate so much power in a punch
as to break the officers eye socket when his movements were constrained
by the tight quarters inside the cruiser window?
Q - Why was no mention made of this injury until ten days after the
shooting? We know that the FPD and SLC prosecutor were throwing
everything out there they could find in their efforts to demonize
Michael Brown and defend officer Wilson. If his injuries were as bad as
they claim, there is no doubt in my mind that they would have been
parading photos of his battered face all over the TV machine.
Q - In the autopsy report, the doctor claimed that there were no
indications on Michael Brown's body of a physical struggle. Unless the
doctor is quite incompetent, one would expect that this analysis
included an examination of Michael's hands. If he had hit the cop so
hard as to break his eye orbital, one would expect to see trauma to his
hand and knuckles. No such trauma was reported.
Q - According to a timeline of the incident, there was an ambulance
there within a few minutes as it was responding to another call in the
area. While it was reported that they stopped to assess Michael Brown,
there is no mention of them providing any sort of medical assistance to
Wilson.
Q - In Piaget Crenshaw's video
of the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Wilson can be seen
wandering around the crime scene and conversing with officers. If he was
truly so badly injured it should be apparent in how he appears in the
video. His face looked clean, and his demeanor was not that of someone
who was severely injured. No attention was being given by any of those
present to his supposed injuries.
Q - Far from being attended to and taken to the hospital for care -
things one would reasonable expect in such circumstances - officer
Wilson DRIVES away in his cruiser. For a man who was moments ago almost
knocked unconscious, this seems unreasonable as well. Why would the
other officers allow him to drive if he had just undergone such a
traumatic experience?
So anyway, in considering all of the available evidence, I highly
doubt that Michael Brown broke officer Wilson's eye orbital. But rather,
I suspect that IF he indeed has this injury, it is the result of him
getting good and drunk and asking one of his cop buddies to punch him in
the face to give him an alibi. The timing and other circumstances make
this a much more plausible theory than what is being presented on FOX
News.
Update as of 1:25 PM PST
First, in answer to those concerned that this diary is speculative
and/or does not help the situation ... Yes, it is speculative. So what?
In the absence of reliable facts and with the kind of unsubstantiated
claims coming from the right wing echo chamber, I think some push-back
is warranted.
Second, another question has occurred to me which I believe is quite significant ...
Q - If they were struggling for the officer's gun, and Michael hit
him so hard as to almost knock him unconscious, how is it that Michael -
a big, strong young man who was NOT nearly unconscious - failed to get
his gun from him? It just doesn't sound reasonable.
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