i thought the he said she said argument was that the cop had hit him with his door or that as the cop tried to get out brown had barged in to his door, either way i was under the impression that it happened as the cop was getting out, the gun went off and the 2 lads ran, the main argument was that the cop suggested that once he had withdrawn his gun and told him to stop (stood behind him at the time) brown had made a motion towards his belt and the cop assumed he had a concealed weapon and fired, the ability to prove or disprove the hand motion is why its been thrown out, its pretty much impossible, his assailant had run off by then and the witness statements vary
im not sure if he's still pending an internal investigation, 1 because he had unholstered his gun as he was getting out of the car and 2 because he fired 12 shots, he shot brown 6 times
I don't think anyone is pretending there are not parasites who will take advantage of public uproar to act out criminally. They should be handcuffed and prosecuted.
As I posted earlier, even if the cop was justified (but why didn't he use a taser?) to shoot and kill the unarmed Brown, the fact that he let the situation devolve to that point makes him negligent, maybe even criminally.
Much of the outcry is that the process looked rigged from the start, with a prosecutor with police ties essentially guiding a grand jury to try the case themselves, which is in effect what happened. There was enough conflicting evidence to charge the officer with manslaughter or negligent homicide and send it to a proper trial jury, but he was protected by the system that he is paid to be a foot soldier for. They were not going to send their boy to state prison, end of.
In a state with a long history of racial injustice, rigged juries, and police misconduct, it is not much of a stretch to imagine that another injustice was done in this case.