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by peterfirefly 4207 days ago
It still sounds very unlikely. Michael Brown was huge and you are not exactly well positioned for pulling people when you are sitting in a car.
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With likelihood in mind, how likely is it that a person believes they can grab a holstered gun from a cop, get shot, decide to run at least 150 feet from fear of getting shot again, and then turn into a 'demon' with no fear of gunfire anymore and charge the source of gunfire?
With that and some other odd aspects of his behavior which Johnson claimed was out of character (eg starting an alterction and stealing in the store), I wonder if he was suffering from Toxoplasmosis or some similar condition. Toxoplasmosis is thought to dramatically affect an individual's appetite for risky behavior. Preliminary research suggests that as you'd expect there 's a higher seroprevalance in prison populations, but much more work needs to be done to verify this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

I'd say quite likely. Some people are incredible stupid.

http://awesci.com/the-astonishingly-funny-story-of-mr-mcarth...

Darren Wilson is also 6'4" 220ish pounds. It's not like he's a wimp.