Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Michael Brown Autopsy Report and the Tale of Its Bullets

   I laid down my study of Michael Brown's autopsy report after too quick of a glance last night, somehow getting the impression it didn't address which direction the bullets came from, the front or the back.
   Picking it back up, tonight, I see the medical examiner was very considerate of where the bullets entered and exited. "The exact directional path of the gunshot wound cannot be easily determined," he says of the wound on the bicep, which indicates he was reflecting on the direction of the bullets.
   From my reading, none of the bullets are known to have entered from the rear. Numerous bullet entries, perhaps the most interesting of which is one at the corner of the scalp, which would indicate the head was lowered.
   Was he in the act of lowering himself to tackle Officer Darren Wilson, or had the other bullets reduced him to falling forward and thus the bullet entered at the corner of his head? Do we determine anything from the number of bullets that hit him (nine, I believe)? Would that mean he didn't fall easily? What conditions might a person be in, that he does not fall easily? Rage? Or, was it that Officer Wilson was just firing rapidly?
   Was there a ballistics report, to determine how far away Brown was when hit by each bullet? If no, why not? Or, are such reports not able to make a distinction between whether the gunfire came from 10 feet or 20?

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