The first thing you have to do to understand Michael Brown
is not believe the RW spin.
Second thing is to read Dorian Johnson's testimony:
page 43
The conversation we was having at
this point, we was talking the same, the
conversation never changed about what we were
talking about future goals and stuff like that, what
we were planning on doing.
And basically he was asking me
questions on how did I transform to coming from
where I was and getting on track and now I have my
own apartment and stuff like that, I was just
telling him a few things that I went through in my
life that made me change and stuff like that.
I knew he wasn't someone like me, I
knew he didn't grow up where I grew up from, where
there was a bunch of violent gangs and violent stuff
occurring all the time. I knew that much about
because I read from his demeanor he didn't come up
that way. I'm telling him about my life story and
how I come up from a bunch of tragedies. I went to
school, I was still able to do things that I need to
do in life.
At that time he asked, at that time
there was no cars, no traffic, no one was coming up
or down Canfield Drive. We got in the middle of the
street, got into the middle of the street. We're
walking in the middle, I'm in front of Big Mike and
he's right behind me. He's real big so I know
people can see him right above me.
So we are walking on the street. At
that time we are walking like 30 seconds, I'm not
really on the time preferences, about 30 seconds and
traffic started going, but no one blew their horns,
no one made irregular turns to get around us like we
were in the way and no one yelled out their windows,
you guys are in the way, get out of the street,
anything like that. Two or three cars had passed
question. Where were you
guys headed at this point?
A: At this point we was headed back to my
house or his house because where we were staying,
like I said, we were staying directly apart from
each other, but on opposite side of the streets. I
lived on this side, my building was on this side and
the building he was staying in at that time was on
the other side of the street.
So you hadn't decided whose place you were
going to go to yet?
A We hadn't made it to that point yet.
Okay. And your plan was to go and smoke?
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