really?
just "stop"
does that make any sense whatsoever?
i seen a few chases, and its always "get down" with a LOT of expletives thrown in, or i am gonna ****ing shoot you
and they yell it....stop, or ill shoot........and then get down on your belly
every freaking time........
something just isnt adding up.......
I am just telling you what witnesses actually said, not what I want them to have said. I think it makes sense in the context that all parties involved were under extreme duress and made decisions that in hindsight wouldn't be considered the best available option. Again, not a single eyewitness said that Wilson gave any commands for Brown to get down. Excon's emoticons won't change that fact.
For example, the latest "black witness who claims to have seen the killing of Mike Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson 'from start to finish' and who also purports to have just completed testifying in front of the Grand Jury" actually said, and I am quoting from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which is the newspaper that actually interviewed him:
The witness said he had been on the right side of the police SUV and did not have a clear view of what happened on the opposite, driver’s side. “There was a tussle going on,” he said, adding that he believes he saw Wilson’s hat fly off.
He then heard a shot and saw Brown run, followed by Wilson. He said Wilson aimed his handgun at Brown and yelled: “Stop! Stop! Stop!”
The witness said Brown did stop, mumbled something he could not clearly hear and took a step toward Wilson.
“When he stepped foot on that street, the officer told him to stop again, and he fired three shots,” the witness recalled. “When he (Brown) got hit, he staggered like, ‘Oh,’ and his body moved. Then he looked down.
“His hands were up like this (he gestures with arms out to the side and palms upward), and he was looking at the officer and was coming toward him trying to keep his feet and stand up. The officer took a few steps back and yelled, ‘Stop,’ again, and Michael was trying to stay on his feet.
“He was 20 to 25 feet from officer, and after he started staggering, he (Wilson) let off four more rounds. As he was firing those last rounds, Michael was on his way down. We were thinking, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, brother, stop, stop.’ He was already on his way down when he fired those last shots.”
When we contrast it to certain other interpretations of this witness's account, we can see that:
Rather than stopping, beginning to "advance" on Wilson, and Wilson firing only after Brown refused another of Wilson's commands to stop, the eyewitness said that Brown "took a step" towards Wilson and Wilson yelled one more "stop" and started firing before Brown could even take a second step.
Rather than staggering, apparently being struck by one or more rounds, "then continuing to advance" on Wilson, the eyewitness said that Brown was staggering because he was just shot several times, after already being shot by the SUV, and was about to collapse. The officer did yell "stop" again but Brown was still staggering forward, with his hands out in a motion of disbelief, and he was trying to stand back up. He was "trying to stay on his feet."
Rather than support the actions of Officer Darren Wilson as reasonable under the circumstances, the eyewitness summarized what he saw as follows: "Wilson didn't have to kill Brown. 'It went from zero to 100 like that, in the blink of an eye. ... What transpired to us, in my eyesight, was murder. Down outright murder.'"
Witness adds new perspective to Ferguson shooting : News