I don't see Brown paying for anything. If he did, why would the store clerk immediately come around from behind the counter? Why were the police called?
what they're saying - and it's only the blogs, so I have no idea on the credibility -
is that he paid for SOME but clerk thought he stole something else. went to door to demand he pay, and brown took exception and it got physical.
IF that's the case, it shades things differently. If I pay, and someone accuses me, I get hot very fast. Get the #(@#& out of my face, I paid. Don't insult me like that. Etc
Maybe the Ferguson PD will revert to the ORIGINAL statement that they were just busting him as a jaywalker, not as a robber. They like to bounce back ad forth when politically convenient.