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>> paul, when you think of what we are hearing here, you had michael brown killed. you had some saying the officer was injured. i mean, there is a lot that would have had to happen if the officer went to the hospital or the police there. no the report of any of this? >> right. >> how could there be no documentation of anything? >> im sure there is documentation of many of the things you are talking about. also whats missing, whats lacking and what was turned over are witness statements that were...

Narratives what happened between michael brown and police officer darron wilson, a friend of wilsons version goes like this. >> michael just bum rushes him, just shoves him back into his car, punches him in the face. >> reporter: cnn confirmed that account matches the one officer wilson told authorities but lawyers for the brown family say his autopsy showed no signs of a struggle and that wilson is the one at fault. >> this officer should have been arrested. >> reporter: helping settle disputes...

Conversation from our nbc news team there. nbcs craig melvin, thanks for the update from the ground. the confusion over this incident report is sparking a fresh round of legal questions in this already really complex case. lets bring in criminal defense attorney john burris to help us sort this out. john, we just heard that it was standard procedure in the view of the police that they turn this over to the county and standard procedure that we havent heard anything from that county investigati...

Theyre going to be looking at, hopefully, information from the car. the car is a very, very critical piece of information in terms of whether or not, in fact, a bullet went off. are there fibers in the ground. michael brown, any dna on the car. they will look at everything from the totality. >> also looking for dna on the gun. >> right. but as a prosecutor, they have wide latitude in terms of what they present before the grand jury. >> or not present. >> exactly. >> or not present. >> part of th...

>> they are. theyre making a defense case, if you think about it before the grand jury. these are the kind of things that you will hear this prosecutor talk about in front of the grand jury. understand, in front of a grand jury, some of the material that he talks about may not even be admissible in trial. thats what everybodys missing here. hearsay sometimes comes in and all types of things comes before the grand jury and what bothers me the most is theres no specialest is rules for the use of d...

At least two witnesses say brown was surrendering when he was shot six times. police say brown tried to grab wilsons gun. many here argue the county prosecutor, bob mcculloch, should be removed from the case. five members of his family work for the st. louis police, including his father, who was killed by a black suspect. but mccullough says hes the right prosecutor because of his fathers death. >> what it did for me, or what it made me, i think, is a fierce advocate for victims of violence. >> ...

Well, they continue to distort it. its funny you mentioned fox and they asked me about this so-called eye injury that may have taken place, and let me be the first to say that there certainly was some type of altercation within the car that happened there, but i think this is a distraction from the real situation. the real deal is that that happened in the car and michael brown ran away. this officer got out of the car and then began to shoot at him as he ran away when there was no apparent thre...

Thats all the time the officer has to react. >> the deaths of brown and powell have had members of the public asking why dont the officers aim for the legs or the hands. >> the officer has to shoot at what hes most likely to hit. thats going to be the center of the person, the center mass of the person. and unfortunately, working up and into the persons head. >> you may not like these protocols. they might seem wrong to you, but this is what many officers are taught. the question, of course, do ...

What hes most likely to hit and thats going to be the center of the person, the center mass of the person and unfortunately working up into the persons head. >> reporter: you may not like these protocols, they might seem wrong to you, but this is what many officers are taught. the question, of course, do these regulations, among other factors, lead to further distrust between some communities and the police? >> they wonder why these young men run from them. because theyre scared. scared of what ...

20 times a minute, the officer could have felt some threat in the car depending on what happened in the car but that can dissipate and the that could be no sense of threat to you if the person is away from you at the time you fired the shot. this idea that yes, he can legitimately maintain probably that he felt some sort of threat, we have no idea what michael -- what mr. brown felt because hes no longer with us. that can wash back and forth all the time. he has to be able to prove the six shots...