Discussion: Police: Officer Who Shot Brown Was Not Stop Him Because Of Robbery

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This makes sense - but why did they put out that surveillance video with the victim’s name as a suspect? (an attempt to distract from the issue at hand which has and will continue to work)

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Well, there goes Faux News talking points.

But wasn’t the original police narrative this morning that Jackson left a sick call to go after a robbery suspect? This is becoming a complete Rashomon where we may never be able to determine the entire truth.

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Sing it Lady Day.

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FPD- We’re throwing as much at the wall as we can hoping that something will stick.

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except Fox has already planted this connection (“bad guy, cops doing their job”) with their viewers and they will still push that.

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ooooooops!

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so shouldn’t they have ended their smear with ‘"just sayin’"

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Evidently a baseball cap is the new hoodie.

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Pure meanness of spirit.

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jesus h christ can the ferguson coppers be any less competent?

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Seriously, Ferguson PD has to be the biggest bunch of idiots in law enforcement. They have no shame.

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These people are grotesque. Release the shoplifting accusation which had nothing to do with the kid’s murder first so the victim’s character is tarnished, and only then say oh well, but the officer that shot him didn’t stop him for that.
They are also stupid.

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So far, the attempts to “niggerize” Michael Brown are failing. These pigs should just admit that one of their boys murdered a kid for no other reason than being black.

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I’m NOT going fall into police trap of calling this a robbery. It’s NOT robbery. It’s shoplifting and simple battery. Strong-arm robbery is ie; you have a Iphone, Mac Notebook, the Beats headphones. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a high ticket item. I approach and threaten to take or forcibly take your property. That’s robbery. I question whether taking a $2 pack of cigarillos constitutes robbery.

I’ve seen many loss-prevention agents effect citizens arrest in stores for shoplifting. Sometime those encounters leads to fights and physical altercations. It’s still shoplifting and some companion charge. I’ve even seen cases where the loss prevention agent gets charged with over doing it. In fact, I know someone that got into some serious trouble because they went way overboard.

This was NOT a robbery…period!

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It’s not a robbery - it’s shoplifting. And he was suspect - all we know is that some unidentified black man stole some Swisher Sweets cigars - there could have been many others in the area that fit the general description. Get it straight TPM.

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The officer also didn’t know about the robbery at the time of the incident, which leads one to ask “why in the fuck did you release the video then?” It’s inadmissible in court but it’s tainted the jury pool

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a very detailed report, many pages long, on this very grievous crime, too.

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BULL. SHIT.

Can’t wait for them to post every picture of this poor kid to make him look like a criminal.

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Actually, in this case, it is robbery. Allegedly, the cashier confronted Brown about paying for the cigars, Brown grabbed the cashier and shoved him. Assaulting the cashier changes the nature of the alleged crime. (Which of course, has nothing to do with the arrest . . .)

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