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   On 3/14/2017 5:52 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri sparked the Black   
   > Lives Matter movement and put the Obama administration firmly on the   
   > anti-police side. Two subsequent investigations found that the   
   > officer who shot Brown, Darren Wilson, acted in self-defense. But   
   > the Associated Press can’t let the narrative go, and the Minneapolis   
   > Star Tribune, for one, thinks the story is significant enough to   
   > pick up:   
   >   
   > 	A convenience store is disputing a new documentary’s claim   
   > 	that previously unreleased surveillance video suggests   
   > 	Michael Brown didn’t rob the store shortly before he was   
   > 	fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.   
   >   
   > 	One of the filmmakers, Jason Pollock, told The New York   
   > 	Times he believes the footage shows Brown trading a small   
   > 	amount of marijuana for a bag of cigarillos around 1 a.m.   
   > 	on Aug. 9, 2014. The video doesn’t clearly show what was   
   > 	exchanged, but shows Brown leaving behind the cigarillos.   
   >   
   > 	Pollock reasons Brown intended to come back later for the   
   > 	bag of cigarillos.   
   >   
   > The first question that comes to mind is, so what? That question is   
   > never answered. The AP casually publishes a smear against the people   
   > who own and operate the store–they vociferously deny the filmmaker’s   
   > speculation that they engaged in a drug deal–but to what end?   
      
   AP glosses over one fact.  Brown's behavior inside the store is   
   irrelevant to Brown's behavior when confronting the police officer.   
      
   The behavior outside is what got Brown shot.   
      
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