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I can't say what I believe happened. There just isn't enough information available. The attorney for Brown's family has said the person captured in the convenience store video "appears to be" Michael Brown. The autopsy done by the family's private pathologist concluded that Brown was not shot in the back.

I'm not restricted by USA Today. I haven't been given a guideline as to how to answer these questions. This is also my first AMA so I'm hoping I'm giving people the information they would like. However, I am also not a columnist so I don't give my opinion. I'm not here to offer what I think happened, or what should happen as a lot of columnists do because that is not my job. My job is to report facts and tell you what I witnessed. And, I am happy to do that.

Yes, in my opinion, two weeks was necessary because the story continued to evolve. Protesting was happening as recently as yesterday when more than a 100 people marched down a main thoroughfare in Ferguson. Also, Michael Brown's funeral was Monday, more than two weeks after his death.

Thanks. I got to be a reporter because I loved writing and poetry. I interned at a few places--The Miami Herald, The Seattle Times, and The Washington Post--and got lucky enough to get a job. I tell anyone who wants to be a reporter now to intern as much as you can and learn to write well. It's tough but worth it.

I think it's an amazing platform for capturing video and getting it out quickly. It is hard to be limited to six seconds. However in this case, six second gave people a lot of information. For example, I did a vine about a peace train being made to leave the protests. It got more than 1.4 million "loops" because I took different angles, captured the police talking to the driver and captured it leaving.

Here is my vine of police asking the peace train to leave: https://vine.co/v/M3YVwK7DKuY

Buzz Feed also did a story on the train and asked me about my vine: http://www.buzzfeed.com/yezminvillarreal/this-peace-train-rolled-through-ferguson-during-the-protests