New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case -<br />By MITCH SMITHMARCH 11, 2017<br />In the two and a half years since Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot<br />and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., the explosive case has been parsed in intricate detail.<br />Regardless of what happened at the store in the early-morning hours, the new security footage does not resolve long-simmering<br />questions about Mr. Brown’s encounter with Officer Darren Wilson along a Ferguson street that day.<br />Jason Pollock, a documentary filmmaker who acquired the new tape, says the footage challenges the police narrative<br />that Mr. Brown committed a strong-armed robbery when he returned to the store around noon that day.<br />And shows suppression of evidence.”<br />The St. Louis County Police Department briefly mentioned Mr. Brown’s early-morning visit to the store in<br />a lengthy report on the case, which tipped Mr. Pollock off to the existence of an additional video.<br />But Jay Kanzler, a lawyer for the convenience store and its employees, strongly disputes<br />that version of events, and said the new footage is unrelated to Mr. Brown’s later visit to the store.<br />Instead, Mr. Pollock believes that the new video shows Mr. Brown giving a small bag of marijuana to store employees<br />and receiving cigarillos in return as part of a negotiated deal.
