According to Aleksander Chan\’s article at the decidedly liberal web site gawker.com, Michael Brown – and Dorian Johnson – the friend who was with him when he was shot and killed by (we now know to be) Officer Darren Wilson – were prime suspects in a convenience store robbery earlier on the day of the shooting.
Use the above link to see both the police report and the store\’s surveillance video.
Then, please keep in mind that, if this is true, Dorian Johnson lied when he said he met up with Johnson while he was walking home — which, obviously, makes his account of what happened when the police confronted Brown (“\’I don\’t have a gun, stop shooting!” Johnson recalled Brown saying with his hands in the air. Johnson said the officer then fired several more shots.”) completely worthless.
If this is true, Michael Brown starts to look like a new version of Trayvon Martin – who was initially portrayed as just an innocent kid on his way home from the store with iced tea and skittles, but who turned out to be a three-times-suspended student, who had possession of women\’s jewelry he could not explain how he got, and who went to the store to buy not iced tea, but ingredients which are mixed with codeine cough syrup to make a quick-high drink called “sizzurp” (or “lean”, or “drank”).
I\’ll blog about subsequent information as it comes out….which, I am now certain, it will.
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UPDATE: According to police chief Thomas Jackson, the incident between Officer Wilson and Michael Brown, which resulted in Brown being shot and killed, was unrelated to Brown\’s stealing from a convenience store and, in the course of doing so, roughing up the owner (in this regard, please note that Brown is being described as 6\’4″ and about 300 pounds. As the surveillance footage shows, this means he towered over the owner).
