Rioters are idiots - lock them up.
Shooting "victim" was an idiot - deserved being shot for reaching into a cop car.
HOWEVER, I dislike the police "modifying" the story. I heard on getbig a THIRD version, that the RADIO suddenly alerted the police officer who he was dealing with. Which version is it?
1) He shot kid without knowing about robbery?
2) He shot kid after making connection from the cigars in hand?
3) He shot kid after radio put out description?
4) Some combination of these factors?
A WEEK AFTER THE SHOOTING, we don't know which of these it is. It's changed. That bothers me. Police shouldn't "evolve" story, particularly when it benefits them when the shooting cop suddenly didn't think he was shooting a violent jaywalker.
Ferguson Police Chief: Cop didn't know unarmed teenager was a robbery suspect when he killed him
VERSION 1 - The officer didn't knowJackson says the officer who stopped Brown did not stop him in connection with the alleged robbery. Brown was stopped, Jackson says, “Because he was walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic. That was it.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/usanow/2014/08/15/ferguson-missouri-police-michael-brown-shooting/14098369/Wilson stopped Brown and a friend because "they were in the middle of the street, blocking traffic," Jackson said.
VERSION 2 - The officer did knowHours later, however, Jackson told a slightly different story to CNN and NBC, saying that Wilson noticed Brown was carrying a box of cigars that had been reported stolen. Wilson, he said, initially stopped Brown for blocking traffic, but as he began driving past Brown, he noticed Brown was holding cigars.
At that point, Wilson "made the connection" that Brown might have been involved in a theft that had just been broadcast on police radio, Jackson said.