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Motive of Brown is not relevant here. He is not on trial. (He's dead.) So the only trials it could possibly come up in are that of the officer or the accomplice to the robbery (if he's arrested)?
Per today's news, the officer did not know that Brown had been involved or suspected in a robbery. He stopped, approached, spoke to, whatever Brown for another reason. What ends up mattering in any potential trial of the cop is whether his perception of Brown's force or threat was reasonable.
The release of the convenience store footage is a red herring and either sloppy work by the police department or, worse, a deliberate attempt to attack the character of Brown.
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