Posted on 08/15/2014 2:03:05 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said Friday the initial contact between 18-year-old Michael Brown and police officer Darren Wilson was not related to a convenience store robbery.
Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by Wilson on Saturday, August 9.
In a press conference earlier on Friday, Ferguson police released a report naming Brown as the main suspect in a convenience store robbery where a box of Swisher Sweets cigars valued at $48.99 was stolen and a clerk was allegedly shoved.
Video of the incident allegedly showing Brown, which was released to the public, "had nothing to do with the stop" and was "unrelated" to Wilson's contact with Brown, Jackson said. He said video of the convenience store incident was released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
"The initial contact between Darren Wilson and Mike Brown was not related to the alleged theft of cigars," Jackson said, indicating Wilson did not know Brown was a suspect in the robbery.
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Assault battery is a different matter. Clearly there was an assault and Battery.
So what? Brown thought he did.
shouldn’t he withhold that kind of information???
Allegedly, Brown punched Officer Wilson in the face. I suppose Obama thinks blacks are entitled to do that too, given all the slavery Wilson is guilty of. /s
I thought the officer was responding to the 911 call of the armed robbery in the convenience store. I would have suspected that the description of the robbers would have gone out over the broadcast.
Police report from robbery investigation: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/Ferguson.pdf
But that doesn’t mean Michael Brown & Dorian Johnson knew that the officer didn’t know or wasn’t stopping them because of the robbery. They’d just committed a strong arm robbery & a police officer pulls up....
Of course they assumed the officer was there because of the crime they just committed. Hence Michael Brown’s aggression & resistance.
That’s how I understood it as well.
Maybe he can room with Snowden.
Rxactly. This explains Brown’s disproportionate response, which must have taken Wilson by surprise.
Exactly! One of the possile narratives by an ex-fed prosecutor on Fox, so nicely put by by FReeper BluePlum
the officer didn’t know
that Brown had just committed a robbery.....
But Brown knew
and Brown assumed the officer knew.....
and so the dance began. And a side note:
In this day and age of cell and smart phone videos, don't you think it strange nobody at the shooting scene documented the event and cmme forward with proof?
My understanding is the only witness to the shooting was Brown’s accomplice in the robbery. Are there others claiming to have seen the shooting?
More importantly, the behavior Michael Brown exhibits at the convenience store fits with the behavior the cops describe at the shooting scene - he was physically aggressive, grabbing the store clerk by the shirt and shoving him backwards.
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There was some chick claiming Brown had his hands up. I don’t know if there were others.
Strong-arm Robbery is also Robbery 2 degree; a class B felony. There is no dollar amount involved.
thanks for the mention! :) [I”m not an ex-prosecutor myself, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last year ;)]
When this incident first broke , I recall seeing a statement on Freep that said that a women was driving down the street,
and she said the situation "just didn't look right ". A shot was fired through a window , and I assume she ducked down in her car .
The report continues that she attempted to use her camera phone, but it just didn't work right, so there is no video record.
I haven't researched it further .
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