Mike Brown’s Family Asked To See Robbery Footage Before Police Released It To Media, But Were Ignore

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Mike Brown’s Family Asked To See Robbery Footage Before Police Released It To Media, But Were Ignored

One of the Brown family’s attorneys told ABC that the family was not shown a surveillance tape of their son allegedly committing a robbery before it was released to the media, nor were they given a chance to positively identify their son in the video.

A week ago on August 9th, an unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking an ongoing wave of confrontations between protesting Ferguson residents and local law enforcement. On Friday, August 15th, Ferguson police released a convenience store surveillance video that purportedly shows Brown engaged in a strong-arm robbery — shoving a clerk to take some cigars from the store — the same day he was killed.

Anthony Grey, a local lawyer in Ferguson, told ABC’s This Week that the Brown family was not shown the video before it was released to the press, even though they had requested “to see any video footage before it was released.” Nor were they given the chance to positively identify Brown in the video.

“They were appalled by it,” Grey told an ABC reporter on Sunday morning. “They saw it for the first time – a glimpse of it — on nationwide TV. They had requested an opportunity, through the attorneys, to see any video footage before it was released. That request was not honored.”



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/17/3472255/browns-denied-request-to-see-video/

[RKP5637]

1. It's damn clear what the cops are all about in Ferguson IMO! n/t

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2. I remain unconvinced that any such robbery ever took place

and given this very dishonest, corrupt and racist police department, I will set a very high bar of evidence before concluding that any such robbery ever happened.

[jwirr]

3. There are a lot of questions about this by why would the friend walking with him confess to it?