9 things to know about the new Michael Brown footage

Published March 14, 2017 10:09pm ET



  1. The footage was released last Saturday after filmmaker Jason Pollock’s new documentary “Stranger Fruit” premiered at the South by Southwest festival. It is included in the movie.
  2. Pollock’s clip shows Michael Brown in the same convenience store he was accused of robbing the next day. Pollock alleges that the video depicts Brown trading a store clerk marijuana for cigarillos. If that assertion is true, he says, the county’s decision to release footage of Brown allegedly “robbing” the store the next day – without contextualizing it based on this footage – proves officials were involved in an attempt to smear Brown’s character.

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