New footage raises questions about police killing of Michael Brown

Footage has emerged raising new questions about the US police account of the killing of African American teenager Michael Brown.

Obtained by filmmaker Jason Pollock, the footage questions claims by police that Brown had robbed a convenience store ahead of getting shot dead by a white officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014.

“They destroyed Michael’s character with the tape, and they didn’t show us what actually happened,” Pollock told the New York Times. “So this shows their intention to make him look bad. And [it] shows suppression of evidence.”

The video, never previously seen by the public and released in a new documentary by Pollack, apparently shows the 18-year-old black man engaged in an “altercation” rather than a robbery.

It shows the teenager handing a small bag, presumably containing marijuana, over the counter and getting two boxes of cigarillos instead.

He later has the clerk hold the bag with the…

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