Oops, full footage of store-cam shows that Michael Brown paid for the cigarettes...

[VanGoghRocks]

59. Because, yeah, Mike Brown did not deserve to be shot for stealing cigars under

any civilized system of justice.

But, if Mike Brown did steal the cigars (as 'pressing charges' would tend to go towards establishing although not proving), it might go to Mike Brown's state of mind in his encounter with the shooter Wilson

That is, Wilson initially thinks he is warning Brown about jaywalking. But Brown thinks he's about to be popped by Wilson for theft, even though Wilson may not have even known about the theft. Brown's guilty awareness of his theft might have prompted Brown to communicate or otherwise interact with Wilson in ways that a purely innocent man might not have.

I do not believe what I just wrote above, am merely gaming out how Wilson's defense might frame the events. For the frame to work, a theft would have to have occurred, in order for Brown to have a 'guilty conscience.'

But in order for a theft to have occurred, someone has to say that a theft occurred. Or otherwise it's just the smearing of a dead man who is no longer able to defend himself. Hence, they HAVE to get someone to press charges, even if that effort takes place AFTER the supposed perpetrator is DEAD. (I thought there was a principle in Western jurisprudence that the 'offense dies with the man.' But I may be mis-remembering.)

Looking forward with bated breath to your Part II.