Michael Baden, NY Medical Examiner
[From article]
Try this simple test. Raise your arms. In that position, examine which surface of your arm is vulnerable to frontally incoming gunshots. Clearly, it is the inside, unless you torque your arms inward in order to make the outsides vulnerable to incoming shots, an inconceivable notion. As I see it, Brown’s arms were not up when he was shot, at least four of the six times.
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When I look at the shot placement in the Baden sketch, I infer the officer is firing as fast as he can pull the trigger without aiming, but merely pointing; he’s not looking at his sights (crucial to aiming) but at the man oncoming.
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A man shooting in defense of his life, police officer, soldier, or citizen, will shoot until his adversary is down. Many–but not Officer Wilson–will then shoot him a couple of more times on the ground, to make certain.
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Thus any insistence that Michael Brown was shot with his hands up or an inordinate number of times is simply unsupportable by the known facts.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/08/stephen-hunter-thoughts-on-ferguson.php
POSTED ON AUGUST 31, 2014
BY SCOTT JOHNSON
STEPHEN HUNTER: THOUGHTS ON FERGUSON
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