Michael Brown was shot from the front, had marijuana in his system, county investigation finds

[DonViejo]

Michael Brown was shot in the head and chest multiple times, St. Louis County medical examiner Mary Case said Monday.

While Case declined to comment further, citing the ongoing investigation into Brown’s death, another person familiar with the county’s investigation told The Washington Post that Brown had between six and eight gunshot wounds and was shot from the front.

In addition, Brown had marijuana in his system when he was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo., according to this person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

The report from Case’s office was released to the St. Louis County prosecutor’s office on Friday night but has not been made public. This report is part of the county’s official investigation into the shooting, but it is one of three autopsies being conducted.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/08/18/county-investigation-michael-brown-was-shot-from-the-front-had-marijuana-in-his-system/

[Kalidurga]

1. I would fire someone

Case declined to comment further this is the proper response during an ongoing investigation.

another person familiar with the county’s investigation told The Washington Post that Brown... had marijuana in his system when he was shot and killed by a police officer

This is an improper response. Grounds for firing maybe maybe not, but if I was boss I sure would be looking for any reason to fire this person this breech of common sense if not a breech of policy.

[FarPoint]

2. The marijuana presence...

So what....he was not driving...and it makes one mellow...this is such a cliche from the 60's.!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Better grass than alcohol or pcp

As you say, it makes you mellow and I don't think it's a cliche as far as my own experience. It's put me maybe in a paranoid mood and a contemplative mood but never in a fighting mood.

[FarPoint]

19. I don't smoke it either....

I just find it troubling that the anti Brown supporters want to use it as a thug hoodlum mindset to validate the shooting.

[babylonsister]

3. Infuriating.

Who gives a flying flip if he had weed in his system? I imagine more people smoke it than don't, it's becoming legal, and so what? Is this to prove he was a druggie? Then a lot of us are.

[FarPoint]

5. What...no one released officer Wilson, the shooters drug screen report?

Did they even do a drug screen on the shooter? Drug screens are almost always done in traffic or industrial accidents....

[MohRokTah]

8. Doubtful. eom

[moriah]

4. What, no PCP? 'Roids? Cocaine even? Nope, just pot? Yeah, he "charged" that officer, all right.

Sure. Uh-huh. I believe it.

[Trillo]

6. This is kind of an interesting, if confounding, psyop.

The psyop of the past has often been that doing drugs destroys your brain and makes you violent -- violence of drug gangs being the alleged rationale for militarizing the police to protect life. But in this case, the psyop seems to be saying the opposite, that having marijuana traces in your system will be more likely to result in unarmed you getting murdered.

[avebury]

7. If you look at the diagrams of the shots

from the family authorized autopsy, there only looks like 1 shot to the upper right chest and 1 to the throat area. Then there are 2 shots to the head and numerous to this right arm. And I wonder if one of the arm shots went into his chest area because they are pretty close to each other. Dr. Baden indicated that only the last shot was fatal. For sure, this cop would never win any shooting awards in a contest. I think that he wanted to make sure that Brown wasn't going to walk away from him a second time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/us/michael-brown-autopsy-shows-he-was-shot-at-least-6-times.html?_r=0

[malthaussen]

9. It was the eumelanin in his system, not the pot, that was fatal. n/t

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. How does a bullet fired from the front ...

exit through the victim's eye?

[arcane1]

12. One possibility: he was already lying face-down on the pavement.

[dsc]

14. top of the head in the middle

angled down and forward, it would have to be very close range but it is possible.

[jwirr]

11. And we are going to start trusting the country officials now? You state that there are 3 autopsies

being conducted. The county one, the one by the feds that was requested by the family. Who is doing the 3 one?

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. The family's attorneys paid for Dr Baden's exam

The Federal request is separate and the 3rd exam.

[jwirr]

16. Okay, I have been reading about the 3 exams and wondered. Thank you.

[Lex]

13. So he was mellow . . .

Was the cop immediately tested for drugs, steroids, stimulants? Oh probably NO.

[BronxBoy]

17. And I often why they aren't...

If you drive a bus or a train and have an accident, drug screens are a mandatory part of the investigation. I've often wondered why this is not the case with cop shootings.

[Snotcicles]

20. Has the officer been drug tested? I suggest a hair follicle test. nt