The Witness is Brown’s partner in crime
Do I have the story right? The Witness was Brown’s accomplice in cigar theft plus felony assault. When his Lou Ferrigno sized buddy assaults a cop with less than Marvelous results, The Witness knowingly files a false police report, causing a multi-million dollar riot the truth would prevented. Isn’t there some liability there? Shouldn’t a society, interesting in avoiding such riots, want to nail him to discourage further falsely triggered riots in the future?