Line 14:
Jared Cook, a Rams player, has since received threats after the gesture.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/04/us/rams-threats-ferguson/| title=Rams player says he received threats after 'Hands up, don't shoot' protest | publisher=CNN | accessdate=4 December 2014 }}</ref>
====Truth or Myth====
Michael brown didn't have his hands up in for surrendering. Some have criticized that gesture, like MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough, who has repeatedly called it "a lie."
"What is wrong with these people? What is wrong with these elected officials?" Scarborough asked on Tuesday morning's show. "They know it's a lie. They know the cops didn't shoot him with his hands in the air."
The question at the heart of the controversy has been extremely difficult to ascertain.
Witness testimonies provide clues, but they are wildly conflicting.
One of the oft-cited witnesses, an employee of a maintenance company who was working at the apartment complex near the scene of the incident, testified that Brown first ran from the officer, then stumbled to a halt and spun around toward Wilson.
“Michael Brown was kind of moving at him like, ‘I’m giving up, hands up,’ ” the witness said. He said he heard Brown shout, “OK, OK, OK.”
Another oft-cited witness known as Witness 10 testified that after Brown turned to face Wilson, he went “full charge at the officer.” The witness said Brown “was not in a surrendering motion of ‘I’m surrendering, putting my hands up,’ or anything.” To illustrate the witnesses' varying interpretations of what they saw, the Post published a graphic, "Descriptions of Brown's Movement," that showed how differently observers perceived his actions. The same behavior by the same man was alternately described as both "charging" and "surrendering," as well as a host of other descriptors in-between. reported {{the National Review.}}
===Capitol Hill===
| 
Article Images