The key issue in the Michael Brown shooting case has always been, when the final and fatal shots were fired, was he an active threat to the officer? He had already fled and run away over 148 feet, but when he stopped and turned was it to surrender—as several witnesses told the press—or was it to charge as Officer Wilson claimed?

There is one witness who backed up Wilson's claim, and that witness also wrote the following in his or her journal on the day of the shooting.



"Well I'm gonna take my random drive to Florissant. Need to understand the Black race better so I stop calling Blacks Niggers and Start calling them People."

Why exactly in the world is this the witness that has credibility, but so many others—including the set of construction workers who immediately reacted to shooting that "his hands were up"?—somehow don't?

