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Law Enforcement Officials Admit Officer Wilson Fired at Michael Brown as He Ran Away

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lostlakehiker8/20/2014 1:26:52 pm PDT

The passage quoted says only that Wilson fired his weapon. It does not say, explicitly, that he fired it at anyone.

We do not, not at this point, going by the wording of the article, have it from the authorities that Wilson said he shot at them. It may be that he will say it was a warning shot. It may even be that it really was a warning shot.

It’s an inference, a good one with some support, rather than an ironclad settled fact, that that first shot was an aimed shot. The fact that it missed is, after all, consistent with the alternative, that it was a warning shot.

We’ll know more later.