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In reply to the discussion: For the "let's wait for the facts" crowd. We already have several facts. [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)And in reciting the "fact" you actually did change what he said. He said, paraphrased, three things:
1: The stop was unrelated to the robbery, and at the time Wilson decided to make the stop Wilson did not know Brown was a suspect.
2: The chief does not know if Wilson was aware of the robbery call at the time the stop was made.
3: He cannot/is refusing to say anything about what Wilson knew from the moment after he decided to make the stop because it is part of the ongoing investigation.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ferguson-police-name-michael-brown
Your statement is not a quote - it is a paraphrase, so you are free to change it (and if you really are relying on it being a quote, you need to use quotation marks, the exact words, and more attribution than you did). In the unqualified way you have written it, you have attributed to a statement that misrepresents what the chief said, because he did not make an unqualified statement that Wilson did not know that Brown was a suspect in the robbery.
What would be an accurate fact is that on Friday afternoon the chief said that, at the moment Wilson made the decision to stop Brown, Wilson did not know that Brown was a suspect.