Darren Wilson, the Ferguson cop who shot and killed Michael Brown, did not know Brown was a suspect in a shoplifting case at the time, police chief Thomas Jackson said at a press conference today. The revelation raises an obvious, troubling question: why did the department release footage and an incident report from the unrelated alleged robbery this morning?

In a live interview with CNN's Don Lemon today, a woman recounts an alleged interaction she had with Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo. police officer identified today as Michael Brown's shooter.

Reporters in Ferguson, Mo. today got their hands on an interesting document, provided to them by the town's police: An incident report from Aug. 9, implicating Michael Brown in the petty theft of some Swisher Sweet cigars from a local convenience store.

Ferguson police named officer Darren Wilson as Michael Brown's killer this morning, but if they hadn't it wouldn't have stayed a secret for much longer: At a press conference yesterday afternoon, multiple reporters directly asked police chief Thomas Jackson if Wilson was the cop who took Brown's life.

According to an incident report released by Ferguson, Mo. police today, Michael Brown was suspected in a convenience store robbery that police say precipitated his shooting by officer Darren Wilson. The report alleges that Brown (accompanied by Dorian Johnson) stole a box of cigarettes and got into a brief altercation with the store's clerk before leaving.

The Ferguson, Mo. Police Department has finally released the name of the officer who shot Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old that was gunned down six days ago.

Carrying signs that read "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," protesters numbering over 1,000 strong peacefully marched in New York's Times Square and across over 90 cities earlier this evening to call attention the police shooting of unarmed Missouri black teenager Michael Brown.

After a particularly harrowing night of tear gas, rubber bullets and false arrests, a relative calm has settled over Ferguson, Mo., thanks in large part to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which wrested control from the local police force earlier today.

Everybody knew there would be repercussions if "Anonymous"—or whoever runs the now-suspended @TheAnonMessage Twitter account—released the name of the police officer it thought killed Michael Brown and turned out to be incorrect.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol will take control of policing protests in Ferguson, Mo. from the St. Louis County Police Department, Governor Jay Nixon announced today.

As last night's institutional violence unfolded in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, an old trope came back to life: America's police have been militarized. Like most tropes, it holds a grain of truth, but it's off-base in one critical respect: The U.S. armed forces exercise more discipline and compassion than these cops.

At a press conference about America's ongoing military efforts in Iraq, President Obama wrapped up by making some brief, tepid comments about the militarization of the police happening right in Ferguson, Missouri. "I know that many Americans have been deeply disturbed by images we've seen from the heartland of our country," he began.

At the same time that the Ferguson Police Department was terrorizing its own citizens last night, something interesting and important happened on cable news: Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson reiterated to Sean Hannity that Michael Brown struggled with his killer inside the cop's vehicle, while at the same time two new eyewitnesses told CNN that they saw no such thing.

Is Thought Catalog's "Ferguson, Missouri Looks Like A Rap Video" by Anthony Rogers the dumbest thing that's been written about Michael Brown and the aftermath of his death so far? Let's investigate:

Some 350-odd protesters flooded the streets of Ferguson, Mo. Wednesday evening, demanding justice for the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown and the name of the police officer who killed him. They chanted, "Hands up, don't shoot" as they marched through the predominantly black city.

Via KARG Argus Radio, this is a gripping, archived feed of what happened on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, tonight in the wake of the police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown. In a few short minutes, police fired tear gas directly into yards and demanded that cameras be shut down and protesters disperse.

Two reporters working out of a McDonalds in Ferguson, Mo. say they were arrested and assaulted for no apparent reason while covering the increasingly violent clash between police and protestors on Wednesday night. Both were eventually released without being charged.

Were the ground not saturated with city, St. Louis would be pseudo-prairie—no dry season but chock-full of grasslands. Rivers run wily underground, so mosquitoes seem to sprout from the earth just to greet you. High noon in August is a stagnant heat, the kind that weighs heavy on your shoulders. A thousand miles from either ocean makes the Midwest relentless like that. The breeze trickles in lazily, if at all.

True to their word, the activists of Anonymous' #OPFerguson have released two hours of raw audio from police and EMS dispatch calls on August 9, the day 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Yesterday, the Ferguson, Mo. police department announced that it would not release the name of the officer who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Saturday. "The value of releasing the name is far outweighed by the risk of harm to the officer and his family," said Thomas Jackson, chief of the Ferguson police department.