You are intent upon minimizing Brewer's enormously valuable contribution in this matter. You have repeatedly claimed that the DPD only went to the TT because 'a shoe salesman' saw 'a guy' who looked 'funny'.
Actually I don't think I've ever made that particular claim, but feel free to cite it if I have.
What I do think is that the police considered Brewer's man a "suspect" for no other reason than that. They said so on the police radio.
Dispatcher 10-4. We have information that a suspect just went in the Texas Theater on West Jefferson.
79 10-4.
Dispatcher Supposed to be hiding in the balcony.
What made him a "suspect"? And where did they even get this "information"? Julia Postal stayed outside and Johnny Brewer looked in the balcony and the main theater and didn't see him before he came out and told Postal to call the police. How'd they get "hiding in the balcony"?
Tell us which dictionary version of 'funny' most applies here, John.
I don't see the the relevance.