I've been trying to figure out in a little more detail how the physical evidence supports Wilson.
I read PhanomWolf's post from several pages back where he says that the distance between the point that Brown turns and his body is 49 feet.
Is the 49 feet estimate based on the location of a blood stain?
What part of Brown's body is the estimate based on?
Is it valid to assume that Brown stopped cold after the final shot? Perhaps he fell a few feet in the direction of his motion?
Is it possible that the first blood stain was from the wound that Brown had sustained back at the car?
If I use 6.7 seconds for the total shot interval and assume that the blood stain is where the first shot hit Brown and I subtract a five feet from the 49 feet estimate to account for the fact that Brown might have fall forward.
44/6.7 = 6.5 feet per second
4.4 miles per hour
13.6 minutes per mile
This pace is either a very fast walk or a very slow run
or about 7 km/hour which is pretty close to PhantomWolf's estimate of 7.5 km/hour where he didn't account for any distance traveled by Brown's body after the last shot and he used a less precise estimate of the interval between the first and the last shot.
Oopps, I have to admit to being wrong, it was actually 49 feet between the point Brown turns and his body, assuming that the police drawing is correctly to scale.
Based on that Brown covered 49 feet in 7 seconds (the time it took the shots to occur)
That's 7 feet a second or just over 2m/s, about 7.5 km per hour. Not a sprint, but it's about the speed a 1,000m runner goes at, so way faster than a stumble or stagger. Although this also assumes that he didn't slow on being hit by the two shots to his body, he might have started out faster
I'd also point out that there was no reason that he would have been staggering anyways, a shot to the arm doesn't make a person stagger, and all three shots to the torso indicate that he was bend down towards the shooter so he didn't bend over and stagger from one of them unless it was towards the end of the charge.
I am not sure what to make of this. It still seems reasonable to have expected Wilson to retreat further after his first volley of shots. He reasonably might have presumed Brown was a human and not a Zombi and that the earlier wounds would begin to take effect quickly. But maybe he couldn't see the hits and didn't note any slowing by Brown?
I continue to think it is more likely that Brown is crashing to the ground while Wilson is firing off the last sequence of shots. Would it have been reasonable to expect Wilson to refrain from firing the last sequence of shots? Not reasonable enough to charge him with a crime if he didn't but reasonable enough to see this action as improper?
I have also been thinking about the initial encounter. I didn't realize that Johnson was not necessarily a willing participant in the robbery. I also didn't realize that his prior record for crime was small. Given this new information and the Arman video Johnson's testimony about Wilson's antagonistic approach seems more credible to me than previously.
This leads to the issue of why Wilson backed up the car to confront Brown and Johnson. Supposedly Wilson says in his GJ testimony that this was because he became aware that they were suspects in the robbery but this doesn't seem to be corroborated by what was said prior to the GJ and the time between when he confronted Brown and Johnson, when he made the call to request backup and when he backed up the car is very short. Is it probable that Wilson is lying about the justification for backing up the car aggressively to confront Brown and Johnson the second time?
