Was it because his dog had urinated on his neighbours lawn? Point being disproportionate reaction. It wasn't very difficult to fathom, Dirty Harry talked you through it even.
How do you know it was a disproportionate reaction ? Were you there ?
I'll summarise what happened based on the evidence accepted by the Grand Jury:
- Officer tries to talk to Brown
- Brown acts in a confrontational manner
- Officer cuts across Brown's path with police car to get him to stop
- Brown reaches into police car and starts scrapping with Officer
- Officer tries to shoot brown, grazes his hand. DNA evidence and other evidence shows Brown almost certainly was inside the car
- Officer chases after Brown
What happened next is a little less certain, with many of the witness statements being unreliable. But:
"Mr McCulloch said other witnesses, African Americans who had not spoken out publicly, consistently said Mr Brown had threatened the officer."
It seems likely that Brown charged towards the officer at some point and was then shot dead.
Now, in the heat of the moment, when a man has just reached inside your car as a police officer and then moments later aggressively moves towards you, is it outrageous for you to shoot the man ?
