re: #12 Jenner7

Ferguson PD finally got around to addressing one of the FOIAs, and released tapes from the events leading up to the fatal shots and moments after the shots were fired.

Some of this fleshes out the timeline further, but we’ve got a couple of key details.

Wilson shot and killed Brown less than 2 minutes after he rolled up on Brown and Johnson.

Forty-one seconds after Wilson’s call, unit 25 reported that he was about to arrive at Wilson’s location, saying he was “going out on Canfield” and accompanied by the sound of his racing engine.

Forty-eight seconds later, another officer had arrived or was about to, announcing, “22’s out.”

At 12:03 p.m., an eyewitness to the shooting Tweeted:

I JUST SAW SOMEONE DIE OMFG

— Thee$avageEP (@TheePharoah) August 9, 2014

If his smartphone’s clock, or Twitter’s, agreed with the clock on dispatch records, Brown was killed less than 61 seconds after the dispatcher acknowledged that Wilson had stopped two men.

At one minute, 13 seconds after Wilson’s call, an unidentified officer has arrived and asks, “Where’s the other one?” referring to Johnson.

Eleven seconds later, there’s a brief burst of static and an unintelligible bit of speech. A dispatcher responds, “10-4 on Canfield.”

Twenty seconds later, unit 25 called in to ask if the dispatcher could send a supervisor to Canfield and Copper Creek Court.

At 12:05, a dispatcher called for an ambulance, erroneously reporting that someone had been hit with a Taser.

By 12:07 p.m., a woman wailed in the background as an officer called over his radio: “Get us several more units over here. There’s gonna be a problem.”

Other officers realized there was going to be a problem? A crowd of people who said that Brown was shot in cold blood.

There’s all kinds of eyewitness and forensic evidence showing that Brown had hands up or was staggering (which makes sense given he was already shot multiple times) before Wilson fired the fatal shots at a distance.

What’s lacking from the report is a timeline of Wilson going to the hospital. The Post Dispatch and other outlets say that 2 hours after the shooting, Wilson was taken to the hospital from the station. They then say 2.5 hours later he returned to the station. Does this mean at I+2 he went to the hospital and returned at I+4.5 or that he went to the hospital at I+2 and returned at I+2.5? I’m figuring the former, but there’s ambiguity there.

In any event, that doesn’t exactly sound like serious injuries or that anyone was particularly worried about Wilson’s health. Sounds like a routine check after talking with union lawyers. His condition was fine, and the videos don’t appear to show Wilson in any discomfort, let alone holding his head or showing signs of injuries (especially and including blow out fractures of the kind that Hoft and Chuckles were promoting).