WTF - DOJ told Ferguson police not to release that robbery video

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109. The robbery/shoplifting video will be important in court for both sides

For the prosecution it will be an important point that the officer had no previous knowledge of it when he approached Michael Brown.

For the defense it will be be an angle they use (not saying this is true) to paint Michael Brown's state of mind. By that I mean he had just committed a crime and then an officer approaches him. They will use that in the defense as a reason why Brown could have "attacked" the officer and went for his gun. That is how they will use it, that the officer was caught off guard by someone that had just committed a crime and the officer was caught by surprise since he had no prior knowledge, they will paint the officer as the victim in this.

For those reasons, the store video is relevant to the shooting, but the timing of the release was very suspect and intentional.