When you piece together the forensics, his hands were up for a brief second.
After Brown reached into the car, grabbed the gun, and punched Wilson in the face and head; Wilson used both hands to lift the gun up from being pressed into his thigh. He got it high enough that he got it off his leg, and accidentally pressed the trigger. A round went off and the explosion surprised everyone, including Brown, who lifted his hands back around his head and took a step back. Wilson pointed the gun at Brown and pulled the trigger again, but nothing happened. Brown had unthinkingly induced a "failure to extract" because his hand gripped the gun so tightly that the percussion of the round couldn't pull the slide back to extract the casing.
For a moment, Wilson absolutely intended to shoot Brown directly in the chest with his hands in the air (legitimately, I might add).
When Wilson realized there was a jam, he had to rack the slide to clear the malfunction, eject the casing, which appears to have exited through the window and rolled to the edge of the road, perpendicular to the direction of travel. Brown saw this and took the opportunity to flee anti-parallel to the direction of travel on the road. Wilson did not try to fire at Brown. He exited the vehicle and gave chase. Once Wilson got about 30 feet from his cruiser, Brown turned around and charged at him. It was at this point that Wilson began moving backwards, parallel with the direction of travel of the road, that he fired at Brown, striking him in a vertical line, indicating that the first rounds entered Brown's abdomen causing him to fall, and each of the next rounds going higher to his chest, top of his shoulder, and even top of his head. Brown slid on the ground, face down, arms down, with palms upward where he landed. This is where the initial misinformation came out that the mob claimed Brown was shot in the back of the head. There were 3 direct witnesses to the event, and the casings match the movement of Wilson.
What is particularly interesting is that almost no one shows the actual pictures of Brown's body. One 'Racial Justice' activist actually did create a replication of the crime scene because she was hoping it would radicalize more people, but she accurately portrayed Brown's body, position, and distance from the police vehicle in the art piece she created, which would have cause a lot of further questions: Why was he so far from the car if he got into a hand fight? Why didn't he have bullet holes in his back? Why was he lying face down, arms down, with his palms up, if his hands were up? Why was he shot in the top of the head? I've always been curious if those questions are why I never heard of her art presentation happening more than once.
Missouri?
Damnit. Fixed to Minnesota.
I was thinking of Mike Brown from an earlier comment.
muh "hands up don't shoot"
as he tried to grab the cops gun. You can't hate the left enough.
When you piece together the forensics, his hands were up for a brief second.
After Brown reached into the car, grabbed the gun, and punched Wilson in the face and head; Wilson used both hands to lift the gun up from being pressed into his thigh. He got it high enough that he got it off his leg, and accidentally pressed the trigger. A round went off and the explosion surprised everyone, including Brown, who lifted his hands back around his head and took a step back. Wilson pointed the gun at Brown and pulled the trigger again, but nothing happened. Brown had unthinkingly induced a "failure to extract" because his hand gripped the gun so tightly that the percussion of the round couldn't pull the slide back to extract the casing.
For a moment, Wilson absolutely intended to shoot Brown directly in the chest with his hands in the air (legitimately, I might add).
When Wilson realized there was a jam, he had to rack the slide to clear the malfunction, eject the casing, which appears to have exited through the window and rolled to the edge of the road, perpendicular to the direction of travel. Brown saw this and took the opportunity to flee anti-parallel to the direction of travel on the road. Wilson did not try to fire at Brown. He exited the vehicle and gave chase. Once Wilson got about 30 feet from his cruiser, Brown turned around and charged at him. It was at this point that Wilson began moving backwards, parallel with the direction of travel of the road, that he fired at Brown, striking him in a vertical line, indicating that the first rounds entered Brown's abdomen causing him to fall, and each of the next rounds going higher to his chest, top of his shoulder, and even top of his head. Brown slid on the ground, face down, arms down, with palms upward where he landed. This is where the initial misinformation came out that the mob claimed Brown was shot in the back of the head. There were 3 direct witnesses to the event, and the casings match the movement of Wilson.
What is particularly interesting is that almost no one shows the actual pictures of Brown's body. One 'Racial Justice' activist actually did create a replication of the crime scene because she was hoping it would radicalize more people, but she accurately portrayed Brown's body, position, and distance from the police vehicle in the art piece she created, which would have cause a lot of further questions: Why was he so far from the car if he got into a hand fight? Why didn't he have bullet holes in his back? Why was he lying face down, arms down, with his palms up, if his hands were up? Why was he shot in the top of the head? I've always been curious if those questions are why I never heard of her art presentation happening more than once.