I can get kinda wordy so I broke this out into another post, but another thing I wanted to mention was, just like Brown and his friend may not have expected such a quick response from PD, (they didn’t anticipate the shopkeeper to call the police in the first place) they also didn’t anticipate that the first police vehicle they saw would be the only responder. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t have blocked the door/shoved it back on the officer in the first place.
I will give the buddy, Darian, 2 points tho. He may be lying to protect his streeet cred, but in the store video he took the cigars Mike Brown handed off to him, but then put them up on the side counter - he didn’t steal them. CNN has a great video isolation on this.
(shopkeeper probably didn’t figure out Brown only had the one box until later, if it all, in the confusion - if the cops had made it to the store first, they might have picked up on the out-of-place box sitting there)
Darian might be the smart one of the two, just going along with big thug as little as possible when it looked to become a serious assault. One punch from that moose would have caused serious damage to the owner/clerk.