At the press conference the MO State Trooper Captain was asked if it was fair to name Mike Brown as the suspect at the convenience store given that the person in the video had different shoes and different colored socks than Brown did when he was shot.
Capt. Johnson said he'd look into it.
Since they happened within 5-10 minutes of each other and neither Brown nor his friend had backpacks, are you or others really sure who the big black kid is? If you aren't sure, why should Mike Brown be named?
At the press conference the MO State Trooper Captain was asked if it was fair to name Mike Brown as the suspect at the convenience store given that the person in the video had different shoes and different colored socks than Brown did when he was shot.
Capt. Johnson said he'd look into it.
Since they happened within 5-10 minutes of each other and neither Brown nor his friend had backpacks, are you or others really sure who the big black kid is? If you aren't sure, why should Mike Brown be named?
The Ferguson Police named Brown as the suspect in the photos.
oh, so they all look the same to you?
The FPD did, however, post a still from surveillance footage it claims shows Michael Brown in the act of robbing a convenience store of a box of cigars. The claim is being cited by police apologists as important in the context of the shooting of Michael Brown. In my two and a half years covering police brutality issues here at Reason (and before that a year and a half of doing the same on Freedom Watch), and in my years of reading about these kinds of stories, I have never come across an incident where someone suspected of a crime who was shot by cops wasn’t immediately identified as such in initial news reports. Cops make sure this information gets out, because they believe it will strengthen their narrative, provide the right context for their shooting. It’s impossible to say for sure that Wilson didn’t know Brown was a robbery suspect when he engaged him, but if he did know it, police have no compelling reason, and have given none, for why that information was withheld. Considering that mainstream media are often quick to give cops the benefit of the doubt, police identification of Brown as a “suspect” may have kept the national media from covering the story at all.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/15/would-police-have-withheld-claim-that-mi
It was technically a case of Swishers, $40-50 value.
Actually it wasn't. If you look at the videos, it's 2-4 packages at most. It's all in one hand.
Why is it that every time someone with the name "Michael Brown" is in the news it is bad?
Sincerely,
Michael Brown AKA SkinsNDeacs
RJ, just read the source material before you argue with people. It will save everyone some energy.
RJ, just read the source material before you argue with people. It will save everyone some energy.