Ferguson Protestors to Prosecutors: Reopen Michael Brown Investigation
Newly released video casts doubt on claim that Brown robbed convenience store before he was killed by a Ferguson Police Department officer. On Saturday (March 11), filmmaker Jason Pollock debuted “Stranger Fruit,” his documentary about the death of Michael Brown, at South by Southwest. The film included previously unreleased footage that shows that Michael Brown visited Ferguson Market—the store he was accused of robbing—just hours before his August 2014 death and appeared to conduct a friendly transaction with workers there. Darren Wilson, the former Ferguson Police Department officer who killed Brown, claimed that he approached the unarmed…