godkiller
"We are the Fury"
So I just read that Wilson testified that Brown ran away after being hit with 3 shots. Wilson then pursued Brown and killed Brown with more shots. Under what reasonable auspices could Wilson have followed Brown? There was no threat after the first three shots, after which point Brown ran away. So even if we assume that Wilson felt threatened in the beginning of the confrontation (and it's not clear whether his feelings were justified then either), how is Wilson following and killing Brown after the initial confrontation justified? I don't presume there was any threat after the first confrontation.
From the New Yorker: "Michael Brown’s face, almost as much as his body, was what Wilson cited when he talked about control of the situation being taken away from him. Brown kept looking angry—still like “a demon,” as Wilson called him—his discontent making him presumptively dangerous: scary. The legal question, for the grand jury, was whether Wilson reasonably felt that his life was threatened each time that he fired at Brown, not just during the confrontation in the car. In declining to indict him on any charges, the jurors, in effect, deferred to the persistence of his fear."
From the New Yorker: "Michael Brown’s face, almost as much as his body, was what Wilson cited when he talked about control of the situation being taken away from him. Brown kept looking angry—still like “a demon,” as Wilson called him—his discontent making him presumptively dangerous: scary. The legal question, for the grand jury, was whether Wilson reasonably felt that his life was threatened each time that he fired at Brown, not just during the confrontation in the car. In declining to indict him on any charges, the jurors, in effect, deferred to the persistence of his fear."
