I had a blow out fracture of the right orbit when I was it the service. A blow out fracture occurs when pressure is applied to the eye-ball. The bone around the eye socket is very thin and opens up. In my case a piece of the muscle for the eye got pinched when the bone closed up when the pressure was no longer being applied.
So "in a way" CNN is right when they say that no facial bones were broken. It took a LOT of x-rays to determine why I had double vision because the bone had closed up. The same could be said for Wilson.
Last, I would not believe ANYTHING CNN says about anything. They are desperate for their lie to be true!
I posted here quoting a friend who happens to be a retired critical care nurse, much of her career spent in ERs. She was evaluating the video of the cop just seconds after the shooting as he paced back and forth looking relatively relaxed. Her evaluation was prompted by a posting of the Gateway Pundit article that the original report of Wilson having an orbital blow out came from. Every single news report since then, including FOX or any other news source you might think is credible, attributed the report back to Gateway Pundit. The Pundit based their report on an anonymous leak, so my nurse friend was interested when somebody else posted the video that's in that linked post too showing Wilson acting decidedly counter to how someone with an orbital blow out would be acting. She describes very consistently with your description of your experience what can happen with such an injury. You should read it and see if you find her description more credible than the notion that Wilson would just be up and calmly walking around after sustaining that kind of injury.
The Pundit article says this about their two sources:
Local St. Louis sources said Wilson suffered an “orbital blowout fracture to the eye socket.” This comes from a source within the Prosecuting Attorney’s office and confirmed by the St. Louis County Police.
The Prosecutor responded to that claim saying that the leak "could not" have come out of his office.
So regardless of where you or anybody else heard the report about the eye socket injury, whether on FOX or Rush's show or a conservative blog, it originated at Gateway Pundit, a
self-described "right-of-center news website" (not even willing to call themselves "conservative" because they're
not) that based their story on unnamed, anonymous sources inside the prosecutor's office and cop-shop. CNN also bases its story on anonymous sources "close to the investigation" that they have yet to name or identify their position or anything else. Whichever story you choose to believe, it's based on anonymous sources.
The term "facial fractures" was my characterization of what the CNN report said, not a direct quote. They kept referring to the report that other media sources had been disseminating all week as the "orbital blow out."
I disagree, this was a guy the size of an NFL Linebacker charging a cop that he had just assaulted. Should a cop take a beating and just let it ride? I don't even care if he knew about the robbery, Brown did and he thought the cop did. Was it an orbital blow-out? Who cares? If you punch a cop, you can expect to go to jail. If you run you can expect them to tell you not to. If you then charge them, you better be faster than a bullet. This is MY OPINION of what happened, based on all that I have heard and read, and what I HAVE chosen to believe.
Just to be clear, when you make the declarative statement that Brown charged the cop, and you base it on "all" that you have "heard and read," all you
can have heard and read about that comes from "Josie," a caller claiming to be a friend of Wilson on the Dana Loesch radio talk show, and an unidentified voice in the background of one of the shooting scene videos. In other words, both are anonymous, whereas, no less than four live eye-witnesses who all claim they saw the end of the shooting (two say they saw all except for the round that went off in the car, and the other, Johnson, was in close proximity from beginning to end), and none of them corroborate the "charge" charge.
"Josie" will never be a witness, at least not on the facts she claimed to be relaying after having heard it from Wilson's wife. If Wilson were ever to be convicted of something, she could be a character witness during the sentencing phase, but that's it.
If identified and willing to talk, the voice in the background on the video could be a witness, but that's still four known witnesses to one unknown witness who may or may not ever be found, and that's what you're hanging your hat on by being so unequivocal about what you think happened.
As far as "who cares" whether it was an orbital blow out or not? You did.
You posted the TGP story, and then claimed,
"Doesn't sound like something that happens when confronting a nice college boy with his hands up..." If Wilson was punched, it was in the car. If Brown had his hands up, it was approximately 35 feet away from the car after Wilson had gotten out and chased him while firing (according to three of the four eye-witnesses). Whether Brown was a "nice college boy" or not is irrelevant. If he was trying to surrender, it's one degree or another of unjustified homicide. If he charged, and if Wilson is ever indicted (which I personally doubt will happen), his defense team is going to have an uphill battle to prove it. Dorian Johnson may be connected to Brown, and also has some criminal record of lying, so his credibility can be discarded. But the other three are not connected to Brown, nor are they connected to each other as far as anything I've heard or read, and like it or not, their testimony is going to count.
Blues
