Word up. It begins to come together. The person who was walking with Brown down the middle of the street said to Al Sharpton in an interview that the cop passed them, told them to get on the sidewalk instead of walking down the street, then he drove on. THEN he backed up fast and accosted them again. At that point, as he was getting out of the car, the friend said the car door “ricocheted” off Brown’s body and (remember, this is his story) hit the officer and that probably upset him. That’s when the cop then, while sitting in the car, reached through the window and tried to strangle the 6 foot, 4 inch tall Brown. Here’s where it gets interesting, in light of the two stories above: Brown’s hands were full of cigarillos, according to his friend. He turned to the friend and handed him the cigarillos, presumably to free up his hands. Now, why might the cop have backed up after seeing these two and why might they perhaps tried to run away?
The shoplifting allegation explains so much. For example, why QuikTrip is “ground zero” for the protests; why graffiti saying “snitches get stitches” was tagged onto the side of the building; why the employees ran into a back room, locked themselves in, thought better of that and so then escaped out the back way after making sure to disguise their QuikTrip uniforms; why the QuikTrip employee who was interviewed by reporters afterwards was afraid to show his face; and why the building (alone among the others that night) was burned down. Can store video survive a fire like that?