{"id":832,"date":"2017-03-13T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/03\/13\/newly-released-michael-brown-surveillance-video-from-sxsw-doc-sparks-protests\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T14:59:58","slug":"newly-released-michael-brown-surveillance-video-from-sxsw-doc-sparks-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/03\/13\/newly-released-michael-brown-surveillance-video-from-sxsw-doc-sparks-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-Released Michael Brown Surveillance Video From SXSW Doc Sparks Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 protestors gathered at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/ferguson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ferguson\">Ferguson<\/a> convenience store that police accused the\u00a0late Michael Brown of robbing Sunday night, after newly-released surveillance footage shows the 18-year-old\u00a0calmly buying marijuana from the store clerks. The video is\u00a0part\u00a0of the\u00a0documentary, &#8220;Stranger Fruit,&#8221; which chronicles the events of August 9th, 2014, through the eyes of\u00a0the Brown family. The film\u00a0premiered at SXSW Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/jason-pollock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-pollock\">Jason Pollock<\/a> says the video not only proves Brown did not rob the convenience store, but that the Ferguson Police Department intentionally obfuscated the timeline of events. At least one report reveals that the police knew of the existence of the\u00a0video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/01\/whose-streets-review-ferguson-black-lives-matter-sundance-2017-1201770544\/\">READ MORE:\u00a0\u2018Whose Streets?\u2019 Review: Ferguson Doc Shows the Birth of Black Lives Matter With Unrelenting Power \u2014 Sundance 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What this video shows is that they lied to the world about what happened,&#8221; Pollock told CNN. &#8220;They wanted to make [Michael]\u00a0Brown look bad, so they put out half a video to destroy his character in his death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police say the video is irrelevant to\u00a0the investigation of\u00a0Brown&#8217;s death at the hands of officer Darren Wilson, who claimed he feared for his life. A grand jury and the U.S. Justice Department declined to indict Wilson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/email\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 100 protestors gathered at the Ferguson convenience store that police accused the\u00a0late Michael Brown of robbing Sunday night, after newly-released&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-dq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}