I saw some still pics of Michael Brown shoplifting (robbing) the local QT and then returning to intimidate the owner/manager....that happened 10 mins before he was shot.
If he committed assault 10 mins before the police encounter, then I can assume he was in a mood to try to assualt the police officer....
Not the QT, it was an independent place called “Ferguson Grocery”, IIRC, but definitely not the QT. There’s another article here on FR that the ghetto rumor was it was the QT and that they had called it in which caused the crowd to attack, loot, burn, and graffiti tag with “Snitches Get Stitches” on a brick wall of the building.