The Chief contradicted himself on the same day.
The following excerpts are from the same site but at different times>
"....Jackson said Wilson, along with other officers, was called to the area after a 911 call reporting a “strong-arm robbery” at a nearby convenience store....Jackson said that a dispatcher gave a description of the robbery suspect, and Wilson, who had been assisting on another call, was sent to investigate. Wilson encountered Brown just after 12:01 p.m., with a second officer arriving three minutes later...."
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/08/15/state-troopers-walk-side-by-side-with-thousands-of-protesters-in-ferguson/
posted there Friday August 15, 2014 10:25 AM
at the end of this article links are provided to related articles on the same site, including this one:
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/08/15/ferguson-police-chief-officer-who-shot-michael-brown-didnt-know-about-robbery/
Note that it was posted almost four hours later.
Ferguson Police Chief: Officer Who Shot Michael Brown Didn’t Know About Robbery
posted there Friday August 15, 2014 2:18 PM
FERGUSON, Mo. (KMOX) – In a press conference on Friday afternoon, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown last weekend was not aware of the armed robbery.
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So we were both right but at different times.
But the issue I raised still stands, only more mystifying then before.
Is it plausible that a solo officer in a radio patrol car with a radio and computer was unaware of the strong arm robbery and description of the suspect? It might hinge on one of those Clintonesque phrases. It is possible that Officer Wilson heard the radio and/or read the computer alert and chose to drive to the vicinity without notifying the radio dispatcher or noting it on the computer. in order to be nearby if responding officers require assistance. And in doing so found himself suddenly spotting Big Mike. At this point he should have followed what is likely SOP in notifying the dispatcher he spotted someone answering the broadcast description. Did he do that? I don:t know. This is one of those things that wil; come out at some point in the continuing investigation.
I love it when we’re both right ha!
Your reasoning is similar to mine on this: Officer Wilson clears his call, heads off to assist at the QuikTrip to talk to the shopkeeper. Maybe keeping an eye out for somebody running away from the QT. Coming down the street, he sees two youts on a Sunday stroll and warns them out of the middle of the street. Doesn’t dawn on him until after he drives past, sees the ceegars, and puts two and two together. Throw it in reverse and off the story continues....I guess Wilson’s reaction time in seconds to seeing Brown would depend on how fast Wilson’s vehicle was going when he passed the youts - and reaction time of the ‘ole brain clicking together hat,shoes,height,weight- and - ceegars. Was he going 25mph or 45mph? Maybe he verified the description before he reversed it. Maybe he called assistance. But he may not have - knowing that he was a second responder he would have expected another unit to be around - but it arrived 3 minutes later.
Thanks for the links, Covenantor :) Now we wait for the forensics to fill in the 3 minutes ...
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)