The St Louis Dispatch is reporting that The officer who shot Ferguson teen Michael Brown stopped Brown and another teen because they were walking in the street, not because of a robbery a few minutes earlier. Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said  on Friday (8-15)

 

Jackson said Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson were suspects in the robbery, but the officer wasn't  aware of that. The officer, Darren Wilson, knew there had been a robbery but did not know that Brown and Johnson might be suspects.

"The initial contact between the officer and Mr. Brown was not related to the robbery," Jackson said in a news conference shortly after 2 p.m. "The robbery had nothing to do with the stop… They were walking down the street blocking traffic, that was it."

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