Michael Brown, Ferguson Victim Paid For His Rellos

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146. Not so fast.

The article at your link quotes Johnson's attorney Bosley as saying "He told the FBI that he did take cigarillos. He told that to the DOJ and the St. Louis County Police."

You take that to mean that the "he" in question is Johnson.

The article at this link: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ferguson-police-name-michael-brown quotes Bosley the same way except that instead of "he" it substitutes the word "Brown" in brackets. I can't replicate it here because the formatting won't let me -- anything in brackets completely disappears. But you can see it at the linked article.

I'm sure the word used was "he," but the writer in this case replaced the word "he" with "Brown" in brackets. The writer evidently believes that the word "he" was in reference to Brown, not to Johnson. I have not heard the audio of this statement, so I don't have the inflection with which it was said. But perhaps the reporter did hear it, either live or recorded, and has the context in which to determine that the "he" referred to was Brown.

If Bosley was saying that Johnson has already told the FBI, the DOJ, and the St. Louis cops that BROWN took cigarillos, then your assertion that "they" both stole cigars and that Johnson was a "participant in the theft" is simply wrong. Since the police have already said that Johnson has not committed any crime and therefore will not be charged with anything, I'm fairly certainly that Bosley did mean "Brown" when he said "he."

See what a difference one little word can make?