Sabine Grant
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In this particular case, the "actual crime to be prosecuted" would be justifiably prosecuted if it were demonstrated via evidence that Officer Wilson shot 6 times and killed Michael Brown without a justification for self defense. That is where the FOCUS ought to be. Unfortunately, what Brown may or may not having been doing prior to the timing of his being shot 6 times and killed at a distance of 35 feet from Officer Wilson's vehicle became a distraction from whether Officer Wilson can justifiably invoke self defense in view of the fatal shot to Brown's head to where Baden's forensic report already points to Brown not being in a standing up position at the time that bullet inflicted a fatal wound. Focus ought to be on whether those 6 shots with the culminating point of the fatal one to the head were necessary to stop an individual who would have been "charging" the Police Officer. This entire case should be about whether Officer Wilson shot Brown 6 times to include the fatal shot to the head under evidence supported self defense.
To add that the non guilty verdict rendered by Jury members is not to be confused for the Jury affirming that they were provided with evidence that Martin is the party who had attacked Zimmerman. Such verdict was the product of Jury members applying reasonable doubt. A point missed by posters who kept harping and rehashing and may still do today as if it were an established fact that there was any eyewitness to the very moment Martin and Zimmerman came face to face. Of course, the same posters indulged in then bringing up Martin's past mischief attempting to portray him as as a violent thug who could only be the party who initiated an attack on Zimmerman while Zimmerman was to be portrayed as a peaceful individual who had no reason whatsoever to ever engage in unprovoked violence.
The release of the video footage of Brown engaging in aggressive physical contact against the store clerk IMO was meant to demonstrate that Brown was predisposed to engage in unprovoked violence. It is no surprise to me that the Police Depart. would release it in their effort to support Officer Wilson's claim of self defense by portraying the now dead victim as being pre disposed to engage in unprovoked and gratuitous violence. Other sign of the PD favoring Officer Wilson's slef defense claim is how he was enabled to forego providing a detailed report of the entire incident. The Police report obtained by the media clearly shows an awful lot of blank. He was most probably advised by his lawyer to NOT provide a detailed report and leave an awful a lot of blank. It sounds as if he were counseled to apply the 5th Amendment in order to not be obligated to comply with the standard procedure of providing a detailed report in writing. However, Officer Wilson will be testifying in front of the Grand Jury and present his own narrative of the entire incident. While the Grand Jury will have NO way to compare the content of the incident report with his testimony. Since the report is largely and mostly a series of blank.
IMO it would be totally irrelevant.
