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(14,428 posts)Michael Brown Robbed Convenience Store, Stole Cigarillos Before Darren Wilson Shooting, Dorian Johnson Says
By Thomas Barrabi@TBarrabit.barrabi@ibtimes.com
November 25 2014 3:59 PM
Michael Brown robbed a Ferguson, Missouri, convenience store of two handfuls of cigarillos just minutes before Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot him on Aug. 9, according to his friend Dorian Johnsons testimony before a St. Louis County grand jury. Wilson testified Browns possession of the cigarillos was the impetus behind the encounter that ultimately led to his death.
I asked [Brown], I looked at him, actually, looked at him for a while and stared at him because the times when I did meet him before that day, he didnt strike me as a person who would do anything like that.
He was basically laughing it off, be cool, be calm, stuff like that, laughing it off, but in my head Im like, I cant be calm, I cant be cool because I know what just happened and we were on camera, Johnson said.
On their way toward their apartment complex, Johnson and Brown saw the first of three Ferguson police cruisers. The first car didnt stop and continued on to a McDonalds parking lot. Brown walked down the street with the cigarillos in plain sight, adjusting his haul so that he had an approximately equal number of the miniature cigars in each hand. Johnson saw a second police cruiser. Again, he and Brown were not stopped.
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