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Never Before Seen Michael Brown Footage Emerges From the Day of His Death. Police Say It’s ‘Not Relevant’
Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden, the parents of slain teenager Michael Brown, attend a rally at Greater Grace Church on August 17, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
After 18-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down and left to bake in the middle of a Ferguson, Mo., street on August 9, 2014, police tried to smear his character by releasing a security video allegedly showing Brown participating in a “strong-armed robbery” by pushing a convenience store clerk and taking a box of cigarillos earlier that day.
Yet, in a new documentary, Stranger Fruit, which debuted Saturday at the SXSW festival, a second video has emerged raising what the New York Times deems “new questions” about what happened in the hours before the fatal shooting of Brown by former police officer Darren Wilson, who faced no charges in his death, sparking massive protests in Ferguson and across the country.
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http://www.theroot.com/never-before-seen-michael-brown-footage-emerges-on-the-1793197639
Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden, the parents of slain teenager Michael Brown, attend a rally at Greater Grace Church on August 17, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
After 18-year-old Michael Brown was gunned down and left to bake in the middle of a Ferguson, Mo., street on August 9, 2014, police tried to smear his character by releasing a security video allegedly showing Brown participating in a “strong-armed robbery” by pushing a convenience store clerk and taking a box of cigarillos earlier that day.
Yet, in a new documentary, Stranger Fruit, which debuted Saturday at the SXSW festival, a second video has emerged raising what the New York Times deems “new questions” about what happened in the hours before the fatal shooting of Brown by former police officer Darren Wilson, who faced no charges in his death, sparking massive protests in Ferguson and across the country.
Read more
http://www.theroot.com/never-before-seen-michael-brown-footage-emerges-on-the-1793197639