Shocking New Michael Brown Video, Court Admissions Muddy Previous Narratives
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Over the weekend, new footage from a documentary called Stranger Fruit emerged that argues that a liquor store video at the heart of the Michael Brown shooting case doesn’t depict a robbery, but rather shows a low-level drug deal where Brown was exchanging weed for cigarillos.
The film’s director, Jason Pollack, says that this then suggests that the 18-year-old Brown wasn’t strong-arming the Ferguson Market and Liquor store before he was killed by then-Officer Darren Wilson, but was simply returning to pick up the cigarillos he had left behind.
This new video clip comes as court documents from a civil lawsuit have been released that contain some 173 admissions from Wilson about what happened on Aug. 9, 2014. Amongst those admissions from the wrongful death case, Wilson admits that: Brown never tried to remove his gun from his holster, that the holster is made to prevent someone from easily removing his weapon and that Wilson had pepper spray on him but did not attempt to use it any time during his fatal altercation with Brown.