The report from the police are that Brown and the officer were struggling in the car when the first shot took place, the officer than continued to fire as Brown fled. The whole incident probably took only a few seconds, if it did play out as the police said. In that case the officer is not going to be guilty of any wrongdoing. Brown being 35 feet away is not going to matter. Police are trained that once they decide to use dealy force to continue until the threat is neutralized.
No, police are trained to use deadly force against someone who is a threat that requires deadly force. As soon as the situation deescalates, they must stop attempting to kill the target. If someone is holding a knife and you shoot them and they drop the knife after being shot, you can no longer shoot them.
As soon as the unarmed Brown fled, he was no longer a threat that required deadly force and nothing will make shooting him legal except the ridiculous corruption in our legal system.
This is the
same police department that arrested the wrong man, held him in a one-person cell with another inmate, beat him until he had a concussion and charged him with property destruction for bleeding on their uniforms, then let him go.
This is the same country in which a federal court dismissed the charges against the officers despite them perjuring themselves on the stand, as it determined that the perjury and injuries were "too minor" to bother dealing with.
In short, ha ha fuck your statement. Cops can easily get away with illegal actions as long as the courts keep letting them get away with it and apologists keep trying to excuse their behavior. Police officers are the only people in the world who can shoot an unarmed person while they're fleeing or surrendering and they get people trying to excuse their behavior instead of prosecuting them.
