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Warpy

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4. ROBBERY? Call it shoplifting because that's what it was

Reply to JJChambers (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2014, 05:14 PM

Aug 2014

and it was an alleged shoplifting unless that dollar packet of cheap cigars was found on either kid.

The jaywalking was on a back street with little to no traffic.

Maybe Brown raised his hands too fast and the breeze shifted a hair of Wilson's coif. That's about all the battery there could have been.

The cops are just digging themselves deeper and deeper with this hyperbolic language.

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Michael Brown Murder: The Official Police Narrative [View all] JJChambers Aug 2014 OP

For #4 Cali_Democrat Aug 2014 #1

So many problems with that. First, it doesn't comport with what the witnesses say happened. morningfog Aug 2014 #2

The police are well on their way to trashing the credibility of the witnesses JJChambers Aug 2014 #5

Lists and rules are handy tools.....I like the new DU rule... FarPoint Aug 2014 #3

ROBBERY? Call it shoplifting because that's what it was Warpy Aug 2014 #4

Nope, the video clearly shows physical intimidation and force against the store clerk Spider Jerusalem Aug 2014 #6

He pushes the storekeeper out of his way Warpy Aug 2014 #8

Assault combined with theft = robbery, under the law. Spider Jerusalem Aug 2014 #10

Your post had me thinking Cali_Democrat Aug 2014 #7

I wouldn't think so JJChambers Aug 2014 #9

No Cali_Democrat Aug 2014 #11

I doubt the confrontation ever got to the point of the officer explaining the reason for the stop JJChambers Aug 2014 #12

Wilson made it clear. He told him to get the fuck back on the curb. morningfog Aug 2014 #18

Even if we accept the logic of their narrative through step 4, I think there needs to be a step #5: VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #13

This thread is about the police narrative, not the truth. JJChambers Aug 2014 #14

Understood, and don't mean to be argumentative, merely to point out that, VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #15

This is todays official narrative. It will do for now............ wandy Aug 2014 #16

They'll probably modify #4 to claim that Brown 'struggled' with Wilson in an attempt to get his gun. TrollBuster9090 Aug 2014 #17