But then there's this line: "The video shows the convenience store incident starting as a minor shoplifting of a box of cigars apparently by Michael Brown. When the diminutive store clerk confronts the big kid, Brown appears to whack him up the side of his face."
That makes the charge go from "minor shoplifting" to "robbery" and "assault", doesn't it?
Frankly I was stunned by that video. Either the clerk is tiny, or Brown was a huge, very powerful thug.
He pushes the clerk around like a rag doll.
I can totally buy the cops story now.
Even a big cop would have trouble trying to wrestle with a gorilla like that.
Brown is huge.
From reports that I’ve seen, the “kid” is 6’ 4” and about 290 pounds. That’s a very large “kid”.