- 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.
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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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