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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (802680)	8/19/2014 12:57:47 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1580148

But the media is refusing to show a video of Michael Brown robbing a store just prior to the shooting, claiming that it had nothing to do with the actual encounter with the police. The video might be relevant if Wilson had known about the robbery and was noticed that Brown was carrying some cigarillos. But, the chief has stated that wasn't the case.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (802680)	8/19/2014 1:24:01 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580148

>> claiming that it had nothing to do with the actual encounter with the police. But it had everything to do with it. The cop had confronted these two idiots walking down the middle of the street and told them to get on the sidewalk which they refused to do (this is what the "friend" of Brown says in the video -- that they told him they were almost to their destination, from which one can reasonably infer was given as a "reason" for not moving to the sidewalk). As the cop was driving off, the call came on the radio and Brown matched the description of the person committing the robbery, and he stopped the patrol car and that's when the encounter occurred. The officer was driving away until that call came on the radio, apparently. That dispatcher traffic will have been recorded and will support the veracity of the story, I suspect (the cop knows it is recorded, so if he lied he knew he was certain to be caught lying). It is doubtful the dispatch would have given much information about the nature of the robbery, although it may have conveyed whether it was an "armed" robbery. Still, whether a weapon was used in the robbery wouldn't imply whether the guy had a weapon on him. I think a fundamental difference in the views here is whether you give the officers the benefit of the doubt. I do, almost always. Some people will always give the criminal the benefit of the doubt in instances like this.