Michael Brown looks to have been a member of the Bloods street gang. Does the following walk like a duck?:
1) Social media photos of Michael Brown throwing Bloods gang signs;
2) Convenience store video of him nonchalantly committing strong-arm robbery, like it was an everyday activity;
3) The obvious presence of masked Bloods at the “protests”; and,
4) The “Snitches get Stitches” graffiti on the wall of the looted and burned Quik-Mart (which thugs believed was the scene of the robbery. And hmm... how did they know about the robbery prior to release of the video while maintaining how innocent Mike was?).
Ferguson appears to be a corrupt ruin where gang members shake down businesses, and expect to take what they please without paying — or even being challenged. Reporting thefts results in attacks. The Indian owner of Ferguson Market wanted to make it clear that the store had not called the police or offered the surveillance tape. The clerk was more or less blamed for confronting Michael Brown instead of just letting him walk out with $50 worth of stolen merchandise. I have to suspect many people in Ferguson live in fear of the gangs and are afraid to speak out.
In a sane world, police would investigate and reveal Brown’s criminal associations, and attention would be paid on ending gang tyranny — not the media backing an attempt to make the streets safer for gangsters.
Darion Johnson told them. He was there with Mike when they robbed the Liquor store.