Another Unarmed Black Teen Killed

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SHINYGOODGUY

Sunday, September 7, 2014 3:57 PM

A couple of things come to mind, see if you can follow:

Why would the Chief of Police, a duly appointed officer of the law, not send out an APB for Brown's arrest following the robbery, that he himself admits to......

"All I did -- what I did was -- was release the videotape to you, because I had to," Jackson told reporters on Aug. 15 when asked why he released the robbery footage. "I’d been sitting on it, but I -- too many people put in a [Freedom of Information Act] request for that thing, and I had to release that tape to you."

From August 9, the day of the robbery and shooting, until August 15 he "sat" on it.
Doesn't that strike you as odd behavior for an officer of the law, not to pursue a criminal and knowingly withhold pertinent information involving the dangerous criminal.

To be fair, I'm posting a disclaimer regarding the FOI requests as stated by the Huffington Post, that may clear up some of the controversy:

Within days of the tragic events on August 9, the City of Ferguson began receiving multiple requests for information and documents. While some of these requests were made in writing, many requests were made verbally due to the fact that the City's website and email were down at several points during that week. City personnel cataloged all requests and treated them in the same manner as it would any Sunshine Law request. (The “Sunshine Law” is Missouri’s equivalent of the federal Freedom of Information Act).

Several reporters, news organizations and others asked for documents specifically pertaining to Michael Brown. One such request was made by the St. Louis Post Dispatch. On August 12, 2014, the paper requested “all documentation concerning the events leading up to and including the shooting of Michael Brown" which shall include “incident, arrest and investigative reports, 911 audio, photos and video retained by the police department.” Another request, made on August 14, 2014, by Judicial Watch requested all records relating to Michael Brown and dated between August 1, 2013, and August 9, 2014.

The Sunshine Law dictates that Governmental entities must respond to both general requests and specific requests and release all documents that are responsive to the those requests, unless those documents are otherwise closed.

The Ferguson police department retained the incident and investigative report of the store robbery which occurred less than 10 minutes before the shooting. The reports, which included the surveillance video, concerned Michael Brown. Under the Sunshine Law, the police department had no reason to close these records and withhold them from the public.

By the date of August 15, the City having reached its statutory deadline to respond to the information requests, released the store robbery reports, including the surveillance video.
Ryan J. Reilly and Matt Sledge contributed reporting.

Still though, why wasn't Officer Wilson alerted to the fact that there was a robbery involving M. Brown? Why wasn't he arrested? Was it deliberate? Or was it incompetence?

The truth will come out!


SGG

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

The video does not show MB paying for anything. It's just a close up of what I have already posted. If he did, then why did the clerk come out and try to stop him from leaving ?

MB reaches over the counter, pulls back a packet of cigars, and hands it to his buddy. ( buddy looks confused, as if thinking 'Why'd you hand them to me ?' ) Then MB reaches over the counter again, pulls back the display case of cigars ( which is just a cardboard tray which looks to hold maybe a dozen or more packets of cigars ). Several packets fall to the ground. He puts the display back, but picks up the packets which were on the ground. His buddy puts back the cigars MB had handed him. He then turns to a lady while holding cigars in both hands, and then just walks out. The store clerk, seeing that he's not put the UNPAID for items back, goes and tries to retrieve the it

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