The Root caught up with filmmaker Jason Pollock and Michael Brown Sr. at the SXSW festival earlier this month in Austin, Texas, to discuss Pollock’s film Stranger Fruit.
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Stranger Fruit is a documentary about what happened to Mike Brown, told through the eyes of those closest to him, including his father, Michael Brown Sr. Pollock delivers an in-depth look at the facts of Mike Brown’s case in an effort unravel the full story of what happened on Aug. 9, 2014, when then-Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Brown.
The documentary brought to light the never-seen-before security footage of Brown that Ferguson police deemed “not relevant.”
That video appears to prove that Brown was not involved in a strong-arm robbery as previously stated by police. Law-enforcement officials have often cited the robbery as part of the justification for Wilson’s actions, saying that the officer knew that Brown fit the description of a robbery suspect.
Watch our interview from SXSW above.
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