Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source
Missouri cop was badly beaten before shooting Michael Brown, says source
Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun, a source close to the department's top brass told FoxNews.com .
The Assistant (Police) Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side, said the insider. He was beaten very severely.
According to the well-placed source, Wilson was coming off another case in the neighborhood on Aug. 9 when he ordered Michael Brown and his friend Dorain Johnson to stop walking in the middle of the road because they were obstructing traffic. However, the confrontation quickly escalated into physical violence, the source said.
They ignored him and the officer started to get out of the car to tell them to move," the source said. "They shoved him right back in, thats when Michael Brown leans in and starts beating Officer Wilson in the head and the face."
The source claims that there is "solid proof" that there was a struggle between Brown and Wilson for the policemans firearm, resulting in the gun going off although it still remains unclear at this stage who pulled the trigger. Brown started to walk away according to the account, prompting Wilson to draw his gun and order him to freeze. Brown, the source said, raised his hands in the air, and turned around saying, "What, you're going to shoot me?"
At that point, the source told FoxNews.com, the 6-foot-4, 292-pound Brown charged Wilson, prompting the officer to fire at least six shots at him, including the fatal bullet that penetrated the top of Brown's skull, according to an independent autopsy conducted at the request of Brown's family.
Wilson suffered a fractured eye socket in the fracas, and was left dazed by the initial confrontation, the source said. He is now "traumatized, scared for his life and his family, injured and terrified" that a grand jury, which began hearing evidence on Wednesday, will "make some kind of example out of him," the source said.
The source also said the dashboard and body cameras, which might have recorded crucial evidence, had been ordered by Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, but had only recently arrived and had not yet been deployed.
A spokesman for the St. Louis County Police Department, citing the ongoing investigation, declined late Wednesday to say whether Wilson required medical treatment following the altercation.
Edward Magee, spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCullough, said the office will not disclose the nature of the evidence it will reveal to a grand jury.
"We'll present every piece of evidence we have, witness statements, et cetera, to the grand jury, and we do not release any evidence or talk about evidence on the case."
Nabil Khattar, CEO of 7Star Industries which specializes in firearms training for law enforcement and special operations personnel confirmed that police are typically instructed to use deadly force if in imminent danger of being killed or suffering great bodily injury.
You may engage a threat with enough forcethat is reasonably necessary to defend against that danger, he said.
Wilson is a six-year veteran of the Ferguson police force department, and has no prior disciplinary infringements.
Massive protests have since taken over the St. Louis community, prompting Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon last Thursday to place Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson at the helm of security operations in an effort to calm ongoing tensions.The federal government is also investigating the death, and Attorney General Eric Holder has taken the lead calling the selective release of sensitive information in the case troubling.
On Friday, Ferguson police released surveillance video showing Brown stealing cigars from a convenience store just before his death. Jackson came under intense criticism for disclosing the tape and a related police report as he also insisted that the alleged robbery and the encounter with Wilson were unrelated matters. Browns family, through their attorney, suggested the tapes release was a strategic form of character assassination.
However, FoxNews.com s source insisted that there was absolutely no spin agenda behind the tapes release and that there were a number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) media requests filed by media outlets seeking it. Tom Jackson is said to have waited on publicly releasing it, and did not want it shown until Browns grieving mother first had the chance to see it.
He defied the FOIAs as long as he could, noted the insider. A powerful, ugly spin has completely ruined public discourse on this whole situation.
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Let's see what this stirs up now!
Will you be back to apologize if this version is proven by solid evidence ? Of course not .
Pathetic is being an apologist for a vicious thug just because he's really big ... and black , of course .
My comment about "what this stirs up now", meant I wonder what is going to happen now FYI...JWC..
No problem..
Who???
You know what's funny ? It's ignoring someone on NT . It means you give them the last word all the time .
As to your wife ... I apologize for that . It was insensitive of me and out of line.
OH NO ! What have I done ?
Hmmmmmmmmm Lets see... Apolice officer was not listened to and directions heeded.... That is the reason this young man was killed. Can anyone out there think of a more senseless tragedy???
Gets away with what ? Preventing his gun from being stolen and used against him ?
That video does not show officer Wilson ... It does subject one to the incessant whining of the girl who took it though .
So since you can see Wilson , which cop was he ?
Mickey -Pardon the interruption, but a quick question if I may?
How many of you are there on NT?
Its sooo nice to receive all of these libels against my character but not one of you aholes are willing to answer my question .
In self defense, of course.
It's always "self defense" when someone grabs for a cop's gun ...
Uh oh
CNN a internationally recognized medical authority ? When did that happen ?
This was the only thing I could find regarding the CNN info.
Apparently, Mr. and/or Ms. Source declined to give their first name.
Whether nor not the transcript twirls your skirt up, do you notfeel that the audio, in and of itself, is authentic?
And no need to duck. I'm still laughing my ample bottom off at the German-language newspaper you used as a source yesterday.