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As Maddow pointed out, despite the fact that Wilson said he “felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan” in his altercation with Brown, both men were 6’4″ (though Brown weighed 290 lbs to Wilson’s 210).
“He’s 6’4″, armed, a trained police officer, inside a police car,” Maddow said of Wilson. “He thought he had met Hulk Hogan, a larger-than-life threat that he could stop only by shooting. And even then, this ‘demon’ that he saw would keep going through the shots by somehow bulking himself up to make himself immune to the shots because he was so angered by them. Gunfire only made it angry, this demon.”
While it’s been two decades since the “racial fantasy” that was the “super-predator” panic, Maddow says that doesn’t mean it’s not still “driving our judgement and our accountability.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maddow-not-buying-darren-wilsons-description-of-michael-brown-as-super-human-demon/
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