why the fuck do you keep on bringing this up ,if your trying to look intelligent it's not working.this has nothing to do with the outcome of the case.you seem to think that them running 40 feet or 140 feet makes a difference it doesn't.in the end they were 20 to 30 feet apart and he was coming forward and got shot.i'm just glad they didn't have idiots like you on that jury
Well, he feared he was fighting King Kong, and he was a little 5 year old.
So why did he run half a football field without, say, calling in the shooting?
He ran 150 feet KNOWING FULL WELL his only option was to shoot. Because after the car fiasco, he knew he was outmatched physically.
He played wimp on the stand. He tried to act like he climbed out of the car, and voila, 35 feet away was this monster. That makes the shoot immediate and necessary. IN ACTUALITY, he had to walk 150 feet (which is pretty far) toward a dude fleeing him or barely in sight. He never put gun away. He never called it in. He never had ANY other thought on his mind except to catch and, well, you know the rest of it.
I've said all along, it's a legal shoot. I've also said the reason they kept everything so close is that there was gonna be some glaring detail about it, some lie, some inconsistency from the cop that made it less than perfect shoot. Him subtracting 120 feet of sprinting down Brown was exactly that.
It's obvious he lied - because months after the shoot, going on ABC for an interview, with every inch of that shoot still in his head - he STILL claimed it was 35 feet. Even after re-living that shooting, every minute detail of how far he went, etc - He STILL claimed it was only 35 feet.
That's a lie. A big lie. From someone sworn to serve and protect. And it's why law-abiding people (like myself) are disgusted by the polilce in this case. not because I give a shit about the bag of shit mike brown. Rather, because I hate seeing cops knowingly go on TV and LIE to the public. Don't you?