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Ferguson police say Michael Brown fit description of strong-arm robbery suspect
FOX NEWS ^ | August 15, 2014

Posted on 08/15/2014 7:19:37 AM PDT by McGruff

Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a police officer in a St. Louis suburb, fit the description of a strong-arm robbery suspect that police were responding to the night he was shot, the Ferguson police chief said at a Friday press conference.

Police have said Brown was shot after an officer encountered him and another man on the street. They say one of the men pushed the officer into his squad car, then physically assaulted him in the vehicle and struggled with the officer over the officer's weapon. At least one shot was fired inside the car before the struggle spilled onto the street, where Brown was shot multiple times, according to police

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: crime; ferguson; gentlegiant; thug
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To: McGruff
Uh oh! He was just a "gentle giant" /s

Yep, Saint Trayvon II.

41 posted on 08/15/2014 7:32:14 AM PDT by Envisioning (My desire to be well informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane....)
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To: McGruff

Who’s the guy watching this , on the left? Eye witness for sure.


42 posted on 08/15/2014 7:32:55 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Back at-cha double


43 posted on 08/15/2014 7:33:12 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
this is exactly why we all need to wait for the whole story to come out

Yes, but the whole story needs to come out as fast as reasonably possible. So Brown fit the description of a strong-arm robbery suspect. Was he stopped for that reason, and not because he was walking in the street?

That's important. Most folks would give a cop some leeway when dealing with a strong-arm robbery suspect. Why wasn't this robbery angle released much sooner?

44 posted on 08/15/2014 7:33:14 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: BunnySlippers

...and just like them sue to try and cash in on their son’s demise.


45 posted on 08/15/2014 7:33:22 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: McGruff

What?

Everyone says he was a “gentle giant” and wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Was this robbery the night before he was shot or same day?


46 posted on 08/15/2014 7:33:28 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: caww

* Comment removed by poster, insensitive to gangsters *


47 posted on 08/15/2014 7:33:29 AM PDT by McGruff (You can lead a human to knowledge but you can't make him think)
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To: McGruff

They were both good, church going boys and their mommas loved them.

They helped guide little old ladies across busy streets and always stopped to aid injured birdies and puppy dogs.

s/


48 posted on 08/15/2014 7:33:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro (A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.)
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To: McGruff

“one of the men pushed the officer into his squad car, then physically assaulted him in the vehicle and struggled with the officer over the officer’s weapon. At least one shot was fired inside the car before the struggle spilled onto the street, where Brown was shot multiple times, according to police”

Well, that certainly is a different account from the narrative the lame stream media have been putting out.


49 posted on 08/15/2014 7:35:14 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: TigerClaws

Do you know what happened after the policeman and Michael scuffled? I don’t.


50 posted on 08/15/2014 7:35:15 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
A two bit punk being turned into another Trayvon style saint from the hood.

Not messy. Not a confused situation. Not a matter of disparate interpretation of events. Not an event worthy of national attention.

The ONLY issue that has the Victim Community upset is that a Cracker killed one of their sacred sons..

51 posted on 08/15/2014 7:35:51 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The leftist media is a pack of liars and purveyors of liberal propaganda. That’s all they are.


52 posted on 08/15/2014 7:36:05 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: McGruff
What of the ‘omitted facts’ that the officer who discharged his weapon had ‘multiple facial lacerations’ sustained during the altercation with Brown??? News hardly mentions this.

News saying Browns handed the cigars to his friend...being seen as an accomplice.

53 posted on 08/15/2014 7:36:37 AM PDT by caww
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To: McGruff

I have no doubt.


54 posted on 08/15/2014 7:36:53 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: greatvikingone

It also said this:

“Dorian Johnson, who says he was walking down the street with Brown when he was shot. He has said the officer ordered them out of the street, then grabbed his friend’s neck and tried to pull him into the car before brandishing his weapon and firing.”

What I am struck by in this “witness statement” is the claim that the officer grabbed the GIANT ENORMOUS kids neck and tried to PULL him into the patrol car. What, on top of himself? I guess that’s supposed to be the “answer” when other for why the kid was in the car struggling with the cop, eh?

Did the cop try to pull the guy into the drivers seat with him? WTH?


55 posted on 08/15/2014 7:37:09 AM PDT by Ladysforest
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To: MrMarbles
Did I hear right, Brown was 6’4” and 290 pounds and he was a teen?

Yep. And dare I say it? No justice, no peace?

56 posted on 08/15/2014 7:37:50 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: TigerClaws

Since the witness, Johnson, who says Brown was on his knees, is the accomplice in the robbery, that account is seriously damaged.

There will be a lot of egg on faces with the video from the police car is released.


57 posted on 08/15/2014 7:37:55 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: KneelBeforeZod

I head early on that “shoplifting” of some cigars may have been a cause.

Looks worse than shoplifting.

Question; would the shop owner have been justified in pulling out a gun and shooting his attacker?


58 posted on 08/15/2014 7:38:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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To: All
The plot thickens.

Police reports say that the unarmed 18-year-old fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri, and his friend were suspects in a convenience store robbery on the day of the shooting.

Reports released Friday by Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson say Michael Brown and his friend, Dorian Johnson, took a box of cigars from a store in Ferguson the morning of Aug. 9. Jackson says the officer who shot Brown encountered the men after reports of the robbery circulated on police radio.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_POLICE_SHOOTING_MISSOURI_ROBBERY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-15-10-22-19

59 posted on 08/15/2014 7:39:39 AM PDT by McGruff (You can lead a human to knowledge but you can't make him think)
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To: McGruff

If is him ... Stop was justified.


60 posted on 08/15/2014 7:39:44 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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