http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/19/1346078/-A-lie-in-the-Darren-Wilson-defense-in-the-shooting-death-of-Mike-Brown-that-just-won-t-go-away?detail=email
(Shortly after the shooting of Mike Brown.) At that time, when the chief said the "entire scene" was just 35 feet in
distance from the "car door to the shooting," every observer accepted
it as a negligible fact and thought little about it, instead zeroing in
on why Darren Wilson stopped Mike Brown in the first place and why a
police officer would shoot a young man who was surrendering with his
hands up.
It turns, out, though, that the distance Mike Brown fled was not 35
feet, as was stated in the press conference and cited in hundreds of
articles since. Nor was it 45 feet, or 75 feet, or even 95 feet, but
approximately 108 feet away from Darren Wilson’s SUV. Below, you will
find photos from the day of the murder, maps, infographics, and more to
confirm for you that the distance was nearly 300 percent farther away
than originally claimed by Chief Belmar and subsequently quoted as fact
in almost every narrative of the case.
While the initial reporting of this distance from the chief could
have been an error, albeit an egregious one, it seems clear now, after
over 100 days of requests for the police to clarify this discrepancy
have only produced silence, that it wasn’t an oversight, but a
deliberate misrepresentation of the facts.
(The day
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