Ferguson live blogger tweets about his phone theft - implies it was a police strategy

[NRaleighLiberal]

Bassem Masri ‏@bassem_masri 2m2 minutes ago
We had 90k ppl watching us live good strat by police stealing my phone sending in crash dummies #ferguson

he is now on Twitter only after his iPhone was stolen!

[Hayabusa]

1. I dunno.

I don't think a cop would have to run away as fast as the grabber did.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. no, not stolen by a cop - the someone instructed to do so by one.

The Blogger was telling the cops that he had 90,000 viewers several times.

[Hayabusa]

5. Could be, then.

[Kalidurga]

3. I was watching his feed on and off

horrible what the FPD is doing. He got gassed and it seems the FPD was just lobbing tear gas willy nilly and for no reason.

[JimDandy]

4. Stolen shortly after he said

he'd meet someone at a safe house. So the thief just got a lot of info that might be of interest to the police.

[NYC Liberal]

6. Hopefully that phone was locked.

[JimDandy]

9. It was stolen while being operated

so not locked. It was streaming as the thief was running with it. He was panting hard by the time he slowed down and then the stream stopped.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

7. Also, they succeeded in blasting him with teargas moments before that. nt

[JimDandy]

11. Masri didn't appear to be targeted with tear gas himself

during the streaming. While he was commenting about tear gas being thrown, he didn't ever seem to be nor ever sounded like he was directly affected by it. I did miss about 15 seconds of streaming right before the thief ran off with his phone though.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

16. He was choking at one point for several minutes after inhaling the gas. He had to get someone

to clean his goggles for him because he was choking and couldn't see.

[JimDandy]

18. Dang-a lot can happen in 15 seconds! n/t

[Bonx]

8. So the Cops arranged for a runner to steal the phone ?

Really ?

[rudolph the red]

10. I think it's much more likely that a thief saw an easy opportunity,

there are plenty of other streamers that have lots of viewers.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. thanks!

[kentuck]

15. I deleted...

I don't think it is up to date?

[JimDandy]

17. Was 3 days old. n/t

[uncle ray]

14. you can watch the archived theft on his page already.

seems like an average dumb thief.