This is slightly off-topic, but it seems to have slipped by everyone that the shop owner who was attacked and robbed by Brown did NOT want to report the crime, and it was phoned in by a customer. Keep in mind that this was BEFORE Brown’s altercation with the police and any of the ensuing trouble. So it seems that there was a climate of fear in the neighborhood in which reporting a crime might lead to some sort of retaliation. Retaliation by Brown, or by his buddies? Or all of the above?
“Snitches get stitches” - painted on the wall of the QT