'Unedited' Ferguson video of Michael Brown in store released
Surveillance video showing Michael Brown in a Ferguson, Missouri, convenience store in the early hours of the day he was fatally shot by a police officer was heavily edited by a documentary film crew, a prosecutor said Monday. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch dismissed the footage from the documentary "Stranger Fruit" during a news conference and released different ‘unedited’ views. The filmmakers and others say the video suggests Brown, a black 18-year-old, didn't rob Ferguson Market & Liquor before white Ferguson officer Darren Wilson shot him on a neighborhood street in August 2014.
Video shows Michael Brown attempting to buy Cigarillos and drinks, and putting a small unidentified package on the counter. The clerks appear to smell it and inspect it. Brown attempts to leave, but returns the bag of goods after clerks appear to call to him. The clerks then put the merchandise away.
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The St. Louis County prosecutor says footage suggesting a drug deal between Michael Brown and workers at Ferguson Market was altered.
