Ferguson Police Chief Says Officer Didn’t Know Michael Brown Was A Suspect in Robbery (Video)
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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