Why is no one in the media asking the most important question?

[avebury]

If Brown is alleged to have stole several boxes of cigars - where are all those boxes of cigars at the murder scene?

This story it totally ridiculous!

[JustAnotherGen]

1. And it was an armed robbery

Where's the gun? You mean to tell me there's no loot and it just is?

Too fucking convenient.

I call bullshit.

[avebury]

2. The are calling it a strong armed robbery

which means that no weapon was used. (Helps with the we found him unarmed after we killed the guy story).

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Ahhh I just had an epiphany of where this is going next

Armed Robbery - trying to steal the cops firearm.

It's like trying to nail jello to the wall with this police department.

[frazzled]

8. Does armed robbery now mean using your arm to take something?

In other words, is shoplifting now a crime punishable by death?

Are we watching Les Misérables here?

[JustAnotherGen]

10. I believe we are

And now his mother has an empty chair at an empty table.

God damn it all!

[avebury]

9. Strong arm robbery is robbery using physical

strength or intimidation.

The problem with the story that the police will not be able to get around is the fact that their prime suspect in this alleged crime didn't actually have any boxes of cigars on him at the time of his death. The timeline between the alleged robbery and the shooting was pretty short. It is hard to paint the young man as a criminal when he didn't have any stolen goods on him at the time of his death.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. avebury

Have no worries - no fears.

This story is going to change a LOT over the next few days.

And thank you for starting this thread. Because #MichaelBrown#robbery#nocigar.

[monmouth3]

3. I'm not buying any of it and I really question that a black police officer actually did the shooting

He could have, of course, but the whole thing has a very fishy smell to it..Didn't even hear of a robbery prior to all of this....

[Sedona]

5. Eye witness on Chris Hayse's show last night said shooter was white...

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Now isn't that some shit?

They just threw another jello shot at the wall.

[frylock]

30. some people say......

[JustAnotherGen]

6. That's why I'm not trusting it

I don't believe it for one minute.

They could have said this on Sunday last week. They've lawyered up and the police union is directing them.

[razorman]

29. I'm not sure what to think of this. I do not believe that any fellow officer,

black or white, would willingly allow himself to be named as the shooter if he did not actually do it. He and everyone he knows is now in danger. I will wait to hear the facts before I pass judgement. I just wish that we could rely on the authorities and the media to give us the facts straight. What a mess.

[IDemo]

12. Edited

Last edited Fri Aug 15, 2014, 11:27 AM - Edit history (1)

I have since seen pics purportedly from the store's video surveillance equipment.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Here is a photo police say was of the robbery.

I can't cut and paste it, maybe you can,
Note the time stamp.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/darren-wilson-ferguson-police-officer-who-fatally-shot-michael-brown-identified/

[IDemo]

23. Yes, I've edited my post, thanks

[NM_Birder]

13. Because nobody in the media is a jounalist.

[KansDem]

14. That's easy to answer!

...where are all those boxes of cigars at the murder scene?

Because the police forgot to bring throw-downs.

[Arkansas Granny]

15. So, do most people who have just robbed a store stroll down the middle of the street?

I would think that someone who had just held up a store would be trying to put some distance between himself and the scene of the crime without drawing attention to himself. Just sayin'. Also, what happened to the stolen goods? Something just doesn't add up here.

[uponit7771]

19. ... and then... and then ... just start a fight with 5 0 !? Jus, "hey, i'm going to college next..

.. week but before then lets rob a store and punch the police"

No one in their right mind is believing that crap, the local PD are making things worse everytime they talk

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Dispatch tapes have NO robbery calls.

Anonymous released the dispatch calls which start an hour before the shooting and end that evening.
NO robbery calls
NO shooting calls..ie: shots fired.
NO EMS calls to the location after the victim was shot.
the ONLY call about the situation is for "crowd control"

[WinkyDink]

16. Even had he---not a capital offense!

[Malraiders]

17. The 911 call for the ropbbery was placed at 11:51. The cop arrived at Browns side at 12:00.

I wonder how far Brown's location was from the store that was suppopsedly robbed?

Did they even name the store or give the store's location?

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Where did you hear the 911 call?

I have been going by the Anonymous release of the PD dispatch calls, in which there is no mention of any robbery.

[Malraiders]

35. I am basing the 11:51 'time of the 911 cal'l from the Police Chiefs press confrerence this

morning ehen he was giving the time line of events.

I never heard the recording of the 911 call either but you can go to the website below and here Jackson say the call was at 11:51.


http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/15/us/missouri-teen-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[tiredtoo]

18. The report i saw said

a tall black person stole 6 cigars from a store. No correlation to shooting.

[avebury]

20. And if had any cigars on him at the time of

his death the police would have released this information days ago.

[Malraiders]

21. And why wasn't the person with Michal Brown arrested, since he was also involved in the robbery? N/T

[Skidmore]

26. Actually, Alex Witt asked that of someone earlier

who said that the Wilson checked Brown's body only to verify it was the robbery suspect. The question regarding the presence of the box of cigarellos was not answered though.

[avebury]

27. That is probablly after I called CNN and asked them

why no one was talking about the missing cigars. I called CNN pretty early on after the news conference.

[Skidmore]

28. Alex Witt is on MSNBC and this was about a little more than an hour ago.

BTW, thanks for all of the summaries you have been providing. It's been a day in which it has been hard to stay by the teevee.

[old guy]

31. It is all irrelevant now.

The police have brought the robbery allegations public and that is how it will be framed from now on. Is it true or not? I don't know as I was not there. However, now that the idea is out there it will be nearly impossible to keep the corporate media from injecting it in all reporting. The policeman is now vindicated as the victim is a robbery suspect and the policeman feared for his life. Truth or not that will be the perception of many,many people. We may never have justice, whatever that is in this mess.

[morningfog]

32. Yep. Once again the focus will be convicting the dead unarmed black youth.

[jwirr]

33. Exactly.

[liberal N proud]

34. The media seems to have a problem asking the right questions

9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Trevon Martin and countless other incidents where the questions that need to be answered are not asked.