The media showed a video of events before protests caused the murder in Ferguson
NEW YORK, March 13. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. American television on Sunday aired a video which sheds light on the events leading up to the high-profile murder of a police officer of a young African-American Michael brown in August 2014.
The incident in Ferguson (Missouri) in the United States caused thousands of protests that lasted several months and not just degenerating into riots.
The film was distributed by American Director Jason Pollock, who directed the earlier documentary about the death of brown. As concluded, the journalists of the American media, including the New York Times and CNN television, the recording made by the surveillance camera in the store shows that brown hands one of the sellers a small container with marijuana and receives in exchange a pack of cigarettes. Then an African American leaves the box of cigarettes in the store and leaves.
As emphasized by the local media, the recording, the authenticity of which has not yet officially confirmed, is of great importance, as it casts doubt on the police statement, made shortly after brown, being unarmed, was shot dead by white police officer Darren Wilson. The guards then published only one piece of video from a surveillance camera in the same store the tape it was clear that young African American comes out of the store a pack of cigarettes, pushing one of the employees. Law enforcement presented the recording as proof that brown could commit shop theft. Now it turns out that the “stolen” cigarettes, apparently, actually belonged to him under the terms of the earlier exchange.
The murder of brown by Wilson has attracted great attention of the public and the media; one reason for this was that, according to eyewitnesses, the guards opened fire when the young man stood with his arms.
Charges police officer ultimately was not charged. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of justice also criticized Ferguson authorities. The office found that the police of the city were prejudiced against dark-skinned population and systematically violated his rights, many officials in the end lost their jobs.
For many months after the killing of brown in Ferguson and in many other American cities have regularly held protests against racial discrimination and brutality by the police. Thousands of demonstrations has repeatedly turned into riots. There were cases of looting, the use by protesters of Molotov cocktails and firearms.