Audio Purporting to Be of Michael Brown Shootings Includes 11 Shots, Interrupted by Pause
At least six hit the unarmed Brown
CNN released an audio recording purported to have caught the sound of Darren Wilson firing at Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, two weekends ago. You can listen to it here. There appears to be an about three second pause between the first six shots and the last five shots. An autopsy performed on Brown for his family found he was hit by six bullets. CNN reported that it was not yet able to independently verify the video, which came from an anonymous Ferguson resident interviewed by the FBI.
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So was there another cop on the grassy knoll? Do they have grassy knolls in Ferguson?
Either that or he missed five times.
It's a mystery!
I'm going with this. Most incidents like this have a large number of shots that don't hit the target. As to the comment below, I don't believe this will help the cop, at all.
I think this will help the police officer's case. If a person won't stop after the first six shots then you have no choice but to shoot untill they do stop.