Now Chief says officer might have realized Brown was a suspect during encounter [View all]

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ferguson-officer-realized-during-encounter-that-michael-brown-might-be/article_52c40b84-ad90-5f9a-973c-70d628d0be04.html

The officer who shot Ferguson teen Michael Brown stopped Brown and another teen because they were walking in the street, not because of a robbery a few minutes earlier, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said Friday afternoon.

Jackson said the officer was aware cigars had been taken in the robbery of a store nearby, but did not know when he encountered Brown and Dorian Johnson that they might be suspects. He stopped them because they were walking in the street, Jackson said.

But Jackson told the Post-Dispatch that the officer, Darren Wilson, saw cigars in Brown's hand and realized he might be the robber.