Posted on 03/13/2017 6:09:42 PM PDT by Ennis85
A newly disclosed surveillance video from the hours before the killing of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 has triggered fresh protests. A filmmaker has released the footage which he says shows Michael Brown did not rob a shop, as police claimed, but instead exchanged marijuana for cigars. He says it contradicts video released by police showing Brown threatening the shopkeeper as he walks out with cigars. The 18-year-old was shot dead by a police officer moments later. However, the convenience store maintains it was a robbery.
Policeman Darren Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing by investigators but the teenager's death led to violent protests and a national debate about lethal police force against African Americans. On Sunday night, 100 people gathered outside the shop after news emerged of the new video. On Monday, one St Louis man was charged with trying to set fire to a police car. Henry Stokes, 44, was arrested by police after he was seen placing a napkin in the gas tank of a police car and trying to use a cigarette lighter to set fire to it.
The previously unreported footage shows Brown entering the Ferguson Market and Liquor around 01:00 on the day of his death. He approaches the counter and hands over an item that appears to be a brown bag, and in exchange takes a shopping bag filled with cigars. After walking towards the door, he then turns around and returns the cigars to the counter before leaving.
Jason Pollock, the filmmaker releasing the tape as part of his documentary Stranger Fruit, says it proves that Brown had not been committing a robbery when he returned to that store around noon later in the day.
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No comment on this.
So, if Michael Brown DIDN'T rob the liquor store, that means it was JUSTIFIED that he tried to overpower a police officer and take his gun to use against him?
GOT IT.
Brown was stopped because he was walking down the middle of a street, not for anything he might or might not have done at a liquor store.
Drug dealers are an integral part of their community.
They’re hopping mad now!
I think it's more if they (the police) lied about the robbery, what else did they lie about?
Now the protesters can legitimately question the official story of the confrontation between Officer Wilson and Brown.
What happened to the gentle giant narrative? I want his juvenile records released.
They will “DEMAND” Trump re-open the investigation and when he doesn’t it will be further proof Trump is a white supremacist.
This incident set back race relations by years——and whether he robbed the store or not DOES NOT MATTER.
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Filmmaker? Was this video the actual surveillance tape or a re-creation using an actor to act out what the filmmaker thinks happened? Why is news so confusing now-a-days?
What liquor store? I thought it was a convenient store.
“A filmmaker has released the footage which he says shows Michael Brown did not rob a shop”
Just some footage. Can you say “edit”? Sure we can.
The point is that a robbery is what was reported to the police. That is the information acted upon.
Brown’s 1 A.M. behavior in the store was all part of the original police report. 40 FBI agents investigated this thing and nothing was ever hidden.
The information about the 1 A.M. drug deal wasn’t submitted to the grand jury because the prosecutor rightly concluded that whatever happened at 1 in the morning had nothing to do with the altercation between Brown and the police officer half a day later.
Did the incident/s at the store even come up in the investigation or the trial? It was entirely unrelated to what happened on the street leading to his shooting.
I guess that answers my question.
The video recording referenced in this story was from 1am, the night before the shooting. It was also shown to the grand jury. The police didn’t lie or hide this video
or he will and they will not like to real facts
I saw the film maker on FNC tonight. He went nuts when they showed the video had been edited.
So that makes it okay for Brown to try to ‘gun-jack’ a cop?
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