WATCH: Footage Of Alleged Robbery Minutes Before Police Shooting

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The Ferguson, Mo., police department has released footage of the alleged convenience store robbery that occurred minutes before Michael Brown, 18, was shot by a police officer and for which he was a “primary suspect.”

The 24-second video is below, courtesy of CBS News.

Image via CBS News.

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  1. Avatar for estamm estamm says:

    Not that it really matters, but is it really him? If not, it would be nice if the actual guy came forward and admitted it. It would really stop the current character assassination.

  2. Well, unless he changed his clothes and his weight…

  3. Avatar for dave48 dave48 says:

    Well, he’s black so it must have been him. Even if it wasn’t, who cares? As long as a black person; any black person gets greased any time a crime is committed, it’s all good. Ferguson justice is blind after all.

  4. Avatar for byteme byteme says:

    Poor reporting… He wasn’t identified as a “primary suspect” until days later.

  5. Avatar for yskov yskov says:

    Does look like him, same clothes too. And his buddy apparently had already told the DOJ about the incident.

    What’s outrageous is that the Ferguson Police want us to believe that anything on that tape has jack shit to do with one of their officers gunning down people in the street, suspects to petty crime or no.

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