It’s been two and a half years since Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.

The very public case had the police trying their hardest to paint a picture of Michael and put the police into an innocent position. Part of the smear campaign included security footage from convenience store that showed Michael allegedly robbing a convenience store, in the video he appears to push a worker and grab a bag of cigarillos mere minutes before his fatal shooting.

However, a new video, from the same store, earlier that day, has come to light that appears to challenge the police narrative of a violent armed robbery.

According to documentary film maker Jason Pollock the tape shows Brown exchanging a small baggie of marijuana in exchange for a bag of cigarillos. He leaves them behind the counter for safe keeping and leaves the store.

Lawyers for the convenuence store heavily deny this…. My question is, like yours I am sure, what does the tape show then?

Lesley McSpadden, Mr. Brown’s mother, says in Mr. Pollock’s documentary Stranger Fruit:

“There was some type of exchange, for one thing, for another,”

The new documentary looks at the shooting from the perspective of the family.

See the footage and learn more in the video below: