AGDee, I should have elaborated: it's difficult to determine what happened and who is telling the truth in rgard to what occurred leading up to the point where there was physical evidence (i.e. who said what and when, and what caused the situation to escalate to the point of physical violence).
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Originally Posted by KDCat
I also know that Mike Brown's autopsy said he was positive for marijuana. It's possible and even likely that he was high when he went to the store and stole those cigars. I knew guys in college who did similar things under the influence (1 stole a bottle of vodka after the clerk said he couldn't sell alcohol after 1 am. 1 stole an ice scraper from a gas station. 1 stole a movie poster from the front of a theater. They were idiots, but they didn't end up dead.)
So what happened? I think that Mike Brown was high and acting like an idiot. (Johnson testified that Mike Brown didn't usually act like this.) The cop reacts overly aggressively. He is cowboying the situation. Mike Brown struggles and runs away. The cop kills him because he is pissed off.
I never fuly bought the story about Brown charging the cop. Who runs and then turns on a cop? Suspects run or suspects fight. They don't typically run and then turn around and fight. Who turns on a cop that is firing a gun at him under any circumstance? Nobody does that. It's a weird story.
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Maybe you already answered your own question?