[quote=Omega]When I heard about it and first saw the video assumed it to be mostly irrelevant until I saw it being consistently used to attack the police in the area with people claiming the police in the video overreacted and tieing it to the Fergusson shooting.[/quote]

Well obviously there will be people who take this case and scream stuff such as "Whiteriarchy!" over it.
But that doesn't change that simply looking at the fact dismisses it almost instantly.

[quote=Roose Hurro]
Given the police officer sustained serious head injuries (a broken eye socket), and given that Michael Brown attacked the officer to begin with, aaand given witnesses are coming forth and confirming this (not to mention the forensic evidence on Brown's own body)... well, from all I've heard, it seems pretty clear what we have here is indeed another Trayvon Martin case. A justified shooting, in this case a police officer defending his life from a brutal attacker intent on getting his gun.However, given this is not over, who knows what the final "verdict" will be. Unfortunately, just like in the Martin case, there will be people who will refuse to believe "the truth" of the matter. Because they believe their "truth" is real, even if it is just a "myth". A proven falsehood. In other words, a lose/lose situation.In either case, a tragedy, if not a travesty.
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Like I said in my initial post, I only came in with knowledge from OP links and skimming other's post.
Where stuff like bodily damaged was rarely or never mentioned.

If forensic evidence can show though that the police were physically assaulted by the kid in such a way though, this case does honestly become much clearer.
I would not give eye witness testimony any credit though.

Have you ever done the exercise in school where all the student's sit in a line, one side says a sentence and it's passed down to the other end? If so, do you remember how the other side always comes out with something completely different? Eye witness testimony is proven to be one of, if not the least reliable pieces of evidence we have.