Tear gas news crews not in the throng isn't right, if it is happening. But the witness statements are so widely varied. Piaget Crenshaw says she saw Mike reach in the car, his accomplice in the robbery says the cop just grabbed his neck before the shots, while Tiffany what's-her-name says Mike was standing far from the car when first shot. These are not easily mistaken variations. Two people watching the same thing wouldn't be that varied.