26 August 2014

Listen for the shots

Slate has an article (with an audio recording) by Ben Mathis-Lilley about the Michael Brown shooting:
An attorney representing a man who says he realized he had inadvertently recorded audio of the Michael Brown shooting has provided that audio to CNN:


Attorney Lopa Blumenthal says the recording was made during a video chat. The audio captures what seem like ten gunshot sounds— an initial group of six, then a pause, then four more. An autopsy of Brown's body performed at his family's request by an experienced forensic pathologist named Michael Baden indicated Brown was hit by at least six shots.
Eyewitness Dorian Johnson, a friend of Brown's, has said that officer Darren Wilson fired several shots at Brown after Brown had turned toward him and raised his hands. The Baden autopsy indicated that Brown had been shot exclusively in the front of his body.
Blumenthal says the man who made the recording has spoken to the FBI.
Rico says there's still more to come with this story... (But ten shots fired, at very close range, and only six hits? The cop needs retraining, and not just on arrest procedure.)

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