Everything You Think You Know About the Death of Mike Brown Is Wrong [View all]
Here is the story of Michael Browns murder that we all believed: One sunny day in Ferguson, Mo., a huge behemoth of a man named Michael Brown walked into a convenience store; committed a strong-arm robbery, escaping with the invaluable loot of a pack of cigarillos; and while he was walking home, Darren Wilson, a brave cop responding to the robbery, stopped him.
When Wilson tried to detain Brown, Brown reached for the cops gun and the policeman shot him. But Brown wouldnt quit, and the officer thought that Brown might have a weapon, so Wilson shot a few more times to stop Brown from harming him.
What happened in Ferguson is that a man committed a robbery, attempted to assault a police officer, and the police officerto save his lifeshot him. The police officer did his duty. The officer should be commended for what he did. Rudy Giuliani on Fox News, March 12, 2015
Except none of that happened.
After a documentarian released video this past weekend that dispels the myth of the Mike Brown corner-store robbery, more information is emerging about the n-word-using patrolman who was accused of racial discrimination and excessive force even before he pumped at least six bullets into Brown on Aug. 9, 2014, killing him. New court papers reveal that Brown never tried to take the officers gun, never struck the officer and did not initiate any contact with Wilson, who was cleared of wrongdoing by a secret grand jury in November 2014.
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