Ferguson Medical Examiner didn't photograph Mike Brown's body because...wait for it...

[WilliamPitt]

..."My battery in my camera died."

Straight from the Grand Jury testimony: https://twitter.com/grasswire/status/537261193736368128

[FSogol]

1. and his dog ate his homework.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

2. Batteries are expensive. More important for them to buy tanks. n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Mr. Pitt you really need to look at this document

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1370634-witness-40-journal-entry.html

Is this why the DA said he wouldn't pursue perjury charges? Because if ever their was a document is a bigger fake than the Hitler Diearies, it would be this one.

[alcina]

24. WTF is this???

Seriously. What is this? Was that actually evidence presented to the jury? It reads like a parody out of Mad Magazine, ca 1960.

[Recursion]

26. Yes, that was actually given to the grand jury

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-ferguson-grand-jury-witness-racist-views-journal

[merrily]

4. The most controversial case in maybe the town's entire existence and he

couldn't buy a new battery, or send someone to buy one?

Nothing implausible about that. No, really. Nothing.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. Especially considering that Mike's body lay there for 4-5 hours. nt

[gollygee]

7. Or at least take a photo with his damn phone

No excuse for that. that is obstruction of justice.

[Taitertots]

5. If I tried that shit at work I'd be fired on the spot

This is intentional dereliction of duty. If you don't have batteries, it is because you chose to omit evidence.

[WilliamPitt]

10. "it is because you chose to omit evidence"

...or were ordered to.

[uppityperson]

8. Do you have a source for that? I need another source before screaming, thanks. Random tweets can

be anything. I hope you understand, thanks.

[nc4bo]

9. WTF?!

[derby378]

11. But wait, there's more...

[Ykcutnek]

12. This is the most in-your-face injustice I've witnessed in my 26 years. nt

[Odin2005]

13. He was just a black kid, not like he mattered!

[Retrograde]

14. And all the stores that sold batteries were out?

And there were no other cameras or batteries in the area? And the photos had to be taken Right That Second? It wasn't like the body was going anywhere anytime soon.

[C Moon]

15. That's part of the job. I would bet he/she has a stack of charged batteries in the car's trunk

Liar.
To me, this proves they are hiding something.

[gordianot]

16. Cameras are such rare commodities.

As are batteries. If someone could figure how to put a camera on your phone. Guess then someone would want to confiscate your phone.

[WinkyDink]

20. Or even if there were film thingies, I think there's a "35mm" involved somehow....

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Wonder what his background is.

In many places/states, being a trained/licensed medical person is NOT a requirement for being a coroner.
Of course, even if true in this case, an IQ higher than rainwater should be a requirement.

Amazing how the town/county/state guys all pull together, isn't it?

[Kalidurga]

18. I am with the fuck it cat...

The police up here in Minnesota are pretty bad, I have seen some stuff in my travels. However, they wouldn't try to pull this ever. The times they have tried created a backlash they don't like. For example, their was a shooting of a guy from another country can't remember which one, but he didn't speak English. Anyway he was carrying a sword and a large pipe in Uptown Minneapolis and the police swarmed him and told him to drop his weapons he didn't and they fired on him killing him. Lots of people came out to protest that and in this case there was far more reason to believe he could be dangerous than in the Mike Brown murder.

[WinkyDink]

19. Haha! I suggested excuses in the thread about cop-cameras, but I forgot the "battery died" one!

[WinkyDink]

21. Nixon had the 18 1/2 minute tape gap; Ferguson has the 4 1/2 hour battery fail.

[Orrex]

22. I'm sure that the same thing would have happened if Brown had murdered Wilson instead.

[WilliamPitt]

23. clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick

..."Damn, my battery died."

"Here's a new one."

"Thanks."

clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick
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Lather rinse repeat.

[nilesobek]

25. The photo of Michael Brown after the shooting

has him face down on the ground.

OK, this is rank speculation: Did the medical examiner deliberately not photograph the body because the resulting pictures might "incite," the populace? Or just a simple coverup of evidence?

[WilliamPitt]

28. When you photograph where the bullets hit the body

...you document *how* the bullets hit the body, as in from what distance, trajectory, etc.

Can't have that.

[hexola]

27. I want proof he did not take pictures

Confiscate his work computer, camera and account for every picture during that time period.