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Police: Teen Fatally Shot By Ferguson Officer Was Suspect In Convenience Store Robbery
KMOX/CBS News St. Louis ^ | 8/15/14

Posted on 08/15/2014 9:50:39 AM PDT by Kartographer

Ferguson police released the name of the officer that fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, while also revealing that Brown was a suspect in a convenience story robbery over a $48.99 box of cigars.


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To: Kartographer
The police has it all wrong. I recall the 1960s and how something gets mislabeled as "looting" and I know the real story as revealed back then.

The young man picked up his layaway merchandise -- the item he'd been making payments on until it was fully paid for -- and started to leave the store.

That's when the evil capitalist owner informed him that the cost of the cigars had increased to $48.99 and he could not yet have the cigars -- which the young man intended to distribute at a home for poor elderly, BTW.

You see in black neighborhoods the exorbitant prices black citizens are forced to pay include what can legally be deemed layaway payments if the citizen chooses. The practice was revealed in the 1960s when racist media employees reported looting. It wasn't looting after all.

(Nothing funny about what's happening? You are right but the civil rights industry and victims industry have been stirring up hate and violence with lies and it's time for them to be held accountable. IMO.)

61 posted on 08/15/2014 10:43:43 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Dallas59
Why didn’t the police release all this info in the beginning?

That's what I can't figure out.

62 posted on 08/15/2014 10:45:47 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: william clark

According to Western Journalism, Chief Jackson had confirmed that this was anything but murder...Jackson stated that the officer was severely beaten, and the side of his face was swollen along with lacerations.


63 posted on 08/15/2014 10:47:22 AM PDT by caww
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To: Dallas59

they were under siege for the past five days. If they didn’t have to act riot control for 96 straight hours, they might have been able to address the investigation in a more timely fashion.


64 posted on 08/15/2014 10:47:45 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Wow. I put dollar bills in my mouth and aim my Glock at the camera, too, when I drink Hawaiian Punch. What a coincidence.


65 posted on 08/15/2014 10:49:48 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: caww

Barack Obama is an enemy of the United States of America. He wants more rioting.


66 posted on 08/15/2014 10:51:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: wideawake

I am getting really tired of this being portrayed as the theft of $50 of cigars.

A 300 pound man assaulted a 120 pound man in the process of, probably, shoplifting, then fled the scene. The felony was the assault, not the theft.

Anywho, as I understand it, when he assaulted the clerk, the crime went from theft to robbery, a much more serious crime.


67 posted on 08/15/2014 10:52:03 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: Leaning Right
...”Why didn’t the police release all this info in the beginning?”.....

It's called an investigation..which takes time...premature news serves nobody’s interests and should not be released because people want it served like a McDonalds order.

Furthermore...the police officer and his family were already being threatened before the riots even broke out. They know the public there in that community and it doesn't take much to incite them....long standing rage of blacks toward cops is prevalent there...not hard to assume any information which would be counter to what the people wanted to "believe" wouldn't help the situation...they were ready for a fight and had already determined guilt of the officers involved before the riots..

68 posted on 08/15/2014 10:52:21 AM PDT by caww
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To: Charles Martel

The Gentle Giant- his grandmamma sais he was such a sweet boy.


69 posted on 08/15/2014 10:53:02 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: Sherman Logan

....”when he assaulted the clerk, the crime went from theft to robbery, a much more serious crime”....

and the kid built on that further by resisting the officers and attacking one in a fight....The kid kept stepping into his own crap deeper and deeper.


70 posted on 08/15/2014 10:54:53 AM PDT by caww
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Is that a huge tatoo on his neck or shadows?


71 posted on 08/15/2014 10:55:38 AM PDT by caww
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To: Noamie
Wow. I put dollar bills in my mouth and aim my Glock at the camera, too, when I drink Hawaiian Punch. What a coincidence.

Me too, but I hold my Glock sideways.

72 posted on 08/15/2014 10:57:50 AM PDT by glock rocks (In DC, nobody can hear you scream)
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To: mosesdapoet

Correct.


73 posted on 08/15/2014 10:57:56 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Lazamataz
Not just BO....I think ol’ Michele has much to do with his “affection” for these events...she and Jarrett push these racial issues as much if not more.
74 posted on 08/15/2014 10:58:45 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Brown severely beat the officer

Their definition of "severe" might be different from ours but if a 300-pound guy smacks you just once - it might be enough.

75 posted on 08/15/2014 11:00:31 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Kartographer; All

Dang. All that rioting fer nothin’!

Well, at least we PATRIOTS got to see a Police State in action...and we also got to witness YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE of how the MEDIA whips people up into a frenzy any old time the WANT to.

Both results are EQUALLY chilling and should be duly noted. But, they won’t be...

Dang.


76 posted on 08/15/2014 11:01:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Kartographer

Looks to me like he has a gun in his hand.


77 posted on 08/15/2014 11:02:13 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Bitsy

——Let’s see how the leftist media handles this bit of info. ——

If that info doesn’t fit into their agenda....It doesn’t exist...

The biggest problem we have with the american media is what they don’t report...not their bias....


78 posted on 08/15/2014 11:03:47 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MeshugeMikey

That is NOT mike brown in the second picture.


79 posted on 08/15/2014 11:04:35 AM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: Toespi

That could very well be a gun he was pushing at the guys neck in the bottom left pic

They have video, so if he had a gun they would know and are holding that for later for some reason


80 posted on 08/15/2014 11:04:50 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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