18 and Dead.

[Tom Joad]

This confirms my suspicions about the six day wait.

When the little chinaman called in about getting roughed up by a big black dude for a few cigars the cops did their usual and told him "yeah, we'll get right in it" and then put in in file 13.

Then when their boy got in trouble they went to working looking to character assassinate the victim and they finally found this.

The only thing that surprises me is that the cops are admitting that Brown wasn't a suspect when he was shot.

I guess someone in the Department, maybe the dispatcher, refused to go along with the scam.