{"id":6537,"date":"2014-11-25T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2014-11-25T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T20:37:03","slug":"like-a-football-player-head-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6537","title":{"rendered":"Like a football player, head down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is interesting: From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/darren-wilson\/witnesss-said-brown-charged-wilson-897043\">some tabloid<\/a>, we have the following quote:<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified witness wrote that the 18-year-old Brown \u201chas his arms out with attitude,\u201d while \u201cThe cop just stood there.\u201d The witness added, \u201cDang if that kid didn\u2019t start running right at the cop like a football player. Head down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>exactly<\/em> how I reconstructed the event in <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6172\">This picture tells a shooting story<\/a>. I said: the reason I\u2019m sure Brown was moving is the extreme torso angle suggested by the lack of exit wounds on the back. A human trying to do that standing still would overbalance and fall, which is why I think he was running or lunging when he took the bullets.<\/p>\n<p>The witness said &#8220;arms out with attitude&#8221;. I said &#8220;with his right arm stretched forward [&#8230;] probably while Brown was grabbing for Wilson or the pistol with his right hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So much for &#8220;Hands up &#8211; don&#8217;t shoot.&#8221;  It&#8217;s as I thought: Brown autodarwinated, bull-rushing an armed policeman he had already injured once.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I failed to make clear before that this account was part of the evidence dump from the grand jury proceedings, not just some random the tabloid turned up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is interesting: From some tabloid, we have the following quote: The unidentified witness wrote that the 18-year-old Brown \u201chas his arms out with attitude,\u201d while \u201cThe cop just stood there.\u201d The witness added, \u201cDang if that kid didn\u2019t start running right at the cop like a football player. Head down.\u201d This is exactly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6537\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Like a football player, head down<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}