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We don't even know how the shots were fired, if shots were fired in a rapid burst, one shot could spin a person around so quickly that the next shot does hit them in the back or in the side.
Hopefully the cop car has audio and video, because otherwise we will never know. Hell, even the cop and the eyewitness may have trouble remembering exactly how things transpired.
Many carefully orchestrated tests have been made to create a tense emotional event similar to this, and then the eye witnesses are interviewed immediately afterwards, and then a few weeks later. They give conflicting testimony from other witnesses, and even gave testimony weeks later which contradicted their original testimony. So we need video or audio to help keep things straight.
The officer in question is a decorated man. It's not consistent that we would have randomly killed the boy. What is consistent is that he felt the boy was a danger.
The witness who live tweeted the whole ordeal never claimed Brown was shot in the back. That's more misinformation.
Dorian Johnson explicitly said Brown was shot in the back. His videotaped recount of the incident has been reported and played on television numerous times from many sources, including in a lengthy interview with Al Sharpton on CNN. Johnson lied.
He could have fled before he was executed as witnesses claimed.
The social media crowd has already put together their story based on the autopsy. Don't worry, he's still the victim of a brutal assassination by the White racist cop.
I suggest you go seek it out so you can defend him here with the talking points.
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