the gun wasn't tested for fingerprints.

Everything gets tested these days and especially the weapon used in a shooting.

And yet they forget to do it here???

I suspect that Wilson wiped the gun clean before he dropped it in the bag -- I think it says so in the report.

That's not sloppy -- that's destruction of evidence and it's self-incriminating.

He does that and then afterwards tells this tall tale with Brown's hands were all over his weapon???

However, I think the claim that Wilson fired at a fleeing Brown has been thoroughly discredited.  

Wilson can only hope but it will come back to haunt him in later depositions.

If he fired 13 shots that day then he fired at Brown as he was running away:

 We know that the first 2 shots happened at the Tahoe -- one striking Brown causing blood and the other going through the door missing Brown and lodging in a nearby window frame. That series of 2 are indisputable.

At the other end are the final 10 shots covering 7 seconds in sequences of 6 and 4. Those 2 series of 10 are indisputable from the Glide audio that even the Prosecutor made particular note of as verified by the FBI.

That leaves 1 that is in dispute.

Wilson claims that this one -- we'll call it the 13th one -- went into the bag with Sig and his magazine -- but all we have is Wilson's word for that, not to mention that doing so violated proper police procedure and everyone knew it.

Video at the scene shows him walking back and forth over the crime scene with his gumshoes capable of picking up a shell casing.

Video then shows him at the drivers door of his Tahoe looking into it and then reaching in. For what??? Is that when he changed the channel of his radio and grabbed a shell casing in there???

The witness that testified to 2 shots fired at Brown as he was running may not have been lying either -- just confused by the echo between those buildings. What they would have heard is the shot and its echo sounding like 2 shots. Investigators know that.

And then there is Wilson's testimony clearly identifying 4 sets of shots -- that second set sounding suspiciously like the one that multiple witnesses describe as knowing that he was hit because he "flinched". Wilson uses the same description here as the witnesses. What a coincidence???

And both the witnesses and Wilson agree on the point where he turned around -- at markers 19 and 20.

And what we find there is a lot of blood that is there and nowhere else before there, as CSI detectives noted as quite telling.

So it is reasonable to believe that all that blood there had to have come from a bullet that hit him just before he stopped and turned there -- that would be bullet 13, the one that didn't make it into the bag but struck his right hand, the same right hand that Wilson indicates that he hit there.

Shots only rang out after Brown turned around and faced Wilson.

So Wilson says. But witnesses #19 and #20 say otherwise.

They say that he was bleeding from a shot that hit him just short of there and then he turned around.

I think it is clear that Brown then headed in Wilson's direction

Not just yet as witnesses 19 and 20 testify to:

First he stood at that spot with his back turned and bled a lot from his right hand. And then he turned around and and stood there at that spot facing Wilson and bled some more from that right hand. Then a blood trail from his bleeding right hand shows it going out and then back toward his body -- a trail that a hand being put out and up would no doubt leave. Look at the picture.

From the time he hung up from his 12:02:00 radio call at the Tahoe to the final 10 shot fusillade at 12:02:07 was only 7 seconds that Wilson used to cover 153 feet -- so by now that time would be about up.

It's at about this point -- 7 seconds from the Tahoe --that the Glide audio captures that series of 6 shots. Witnesses say so as well -- with Brown about 30 feet from Wilson.

Only Wilson claims that he had more time waiting until Brown came back 15 feet closer to him before he then began shooting again. Where he got that extra time no one knows.

But the blood trail in the picture of #19 shows something else happening before that: It shows blood going out away from the body and then coming back in making a trail easy to follow -- a blood trail that would occur if Brown put his bleeding hand out then up.

That's likely where and when Wilson then fired that 6 shot series hitting  the inside of Brown's  right forearm as it was up and causing the grazing wound to his inside upper arm exposed while up.

Okay -- now he moves forward.  His arms come down and toward his body as witnesses testify to and he moves forward toward Wilson's direction.

 How hard and how fast would he be able to move at that point with all those bullet riddled wounds.  And just how much of a threat could he have been at that point???

A 2 second contemplation by Wilson is then followed by 4 shot final barrage finishing him off.

Do you honestly think that he would have left an unspent round in the chamber at that point? He would have emptied his gun until it went click click click -- leaving no doubt and no unspent round and no one to face him in court.

That depends on just where Wilson was standing. even though Wilson was shouting "Stop!".

He stopped, didn't he??? So he did what he was asked to do and Wilson shoots him anyway??? Did he also say "stop bleeding, quit groaning, quit hurting, don't put your hands up, and don't move???" Brown was not dissing Wilson at this point --

Trying to piece together the exact details of the final death walk from all the transcripts is something I am relying on others to do for me.

It only lasted about 5 seconds as he stumbled toward Wilson after the 3rd series of 6 shots recorded by Glide during that pause before the final 4 shots.

I wonder if it was clear to the jury that Wilson had to get fire all those shots or that they decided that since it can never be proven one way or the other.

I'd bet that the jury made their decision on the basis of law not evidence. They believed what the prosecutor's office told them -- that Wilson was permitted to use deadly force against Brown because he believed him to be a fleeing felon -- but that was far from the truth.

MO Blue: "Your comments on this defies logic. According to your version, Brown is so worried about being caught with1.6 grams of marihuana that he decided it would be safer to challenged an armed police officer and risk getting shot."

... whose contemporary views on interracial relations were likely formulated during an era which gave us the film "Mandingo," that's how men of color think -- that is, whenever they're not stealing your car stereo or lusting after your white women.

The stereotype of the black man as little more than a primal beast and "demonic" thug, and of the black woman as a shiftless welfare queen or an unrepentant Angela Davis-type militant, really doesn't have to make any sense to us for it to still be very real to them.

Not only have they no concept of their own latent racism and resultant warped perspective, they're just as likely to see themselves as victims of reverse discrimination, because they think that people of color are coddled and have it so much easier than everyone else nowadays.

As to what Brown did or didn't know neither of us can answer that question.

As to the motives of Brown I can offer no more than that we have video proof if him committing a strong arm robbery in an environment in which he had to have known had cameras.

I think it obvious that Brown was confident that he was "Big Mike," 6' 5" 289 pounds and could do as he wished.

It should be remember that many stores in high crime areas just accept such acts as a cost of doing business until they just decide to go out of business thus creating "food deserts."