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Police Haven't Spoken to the Witness Who Saw the Entire Ferguson Shooting Unfold

Dorian Johnson was with Michael Brown throughout the episode in which Brown was reportedly confronted and shot by a police officer in a suburb of St. Louis.

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As tears, rage, and protest from the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Missouri teenager, the investigation seems to be missing a a parallel investigation into the shooting, no official has spoken with Dorian Johnson, who was with Brown at the time of the shooting.

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