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In reply to the discussion: I work with teens Michael Brown's age and the number one rule is [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Wilson was 'responding to a call.' In fact, his boss, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson said that Wilson did not stop Johnson and Brown because of the robbery and did not even know of the robbery. The transcript of dispatch makes it eminently clear that Wilson is NOT responding to a call about the robbery, although he is recorded as asking the responding officers if they needed his assistance.
It is now eminently clear that you have not read Johnson's testimony in the transcript and that, even had you read it, you would not credit it. FWIW, Johnson's account acquires more credibility in my eyes b/c he admits that, from his perspective at least, Mike Brown left the store with merchandise for which he had not paid. IOW, he's not trying to depict Mike Brown as purer than the driven snow. (Note that Johnson's perception that Mike Brown stole the cigarillios does not mean necessarily that Mike Brown actually stole anything, nor does it make Johnson an 'accomplice'.)
Aren't you obligated to believe the person whose account makes the most sense? Credibility, like beauty, rests in the eye of the beholder. But when you hear an account and say "This must be true because it could not have happened any other way," then that is the account to which you should defer, not to the self-serving vainglory of one who uses the deference customarily granted authority to tell his fabulous yarns.