This is one of those things that seems it has to be significant because this guy has so much information about the robbery, and - at least to me - it seems unlikely he got it from Dorian Johnson.
Remember this was put on Youtube on August 10th, the day after Michale Brown was killed, two days before Dorian Johnson surfaced, and five days before the video from the Ferguson Market was released.
I think some of this stuff he must have gotten from Dorian Johnson, or he was there himself. A recap:
1. That Michael Brown had stolen the Cigarillos.
2. That it was the Ferguson Market and not the Quik Trip.
3. That the Ferguson Market had not called police.
4. That Dorian Johnson had put the box back on the counter after Mike Brown handed them to him. What detail!
5. That someone had said Mike Brown was running from the police.
6. He knows that the police had passed up Dorian Johnson and Mike Brown and uses the same phrase 'almost to our destination' as Johnson would tell media two days later when he surfaced on MSNBC.
He describes Michael Brown handing the box of cigars to "his homeboy", and doesn't even mention Dorian being there for the walk home or the shooting;
Yet he knows what Dorian Johnson said and that the cop initially passed them up, since corroborated by Dorian Johnson and Josie, who adds that from what she heard there were expletives.
his description of the shooting doesn't match Dorian's.
Yes, and that's interesting too. How did that come about?
However, his take on Michael getting down on his knees with his hands in the air and being shot in the head execution-style by Officer Wilson was the story that was broadcast around the world. Of course, the autopsy says it didn't go down that way, IMO.
Exactly!
It sounds like either he saw the store video or he talked to someone who had seen it.
The store video didn't go public until the fifteenth, and even the rumors in the neighborhood had it being the Quik Trip which was trashed the first night of violence and if I recall correctly that's where 'snitches get stitches' came from. The Ferguson Market got theirs the night the video became public as I recall.
Do you suppose the proprietors of the Ferguson Market showed it to him one day after the shooting? Or was he there? Or is he going from what he heard from Dorian Johnson privately?
It's possible he talked to Dorian and just left him out of it, but if that were the case both ends of the story would have matched.
My point here is that he has remarkable (and correct) details that the public did not know until days--if not almost a week--later, yet the story of the final encounter is impossible. A legend in the making?
I sure would love to talk to this guy.
I imagine the police have.
