Sunday in Brooklyn. | Fred Klonsky

Sunday in Brooklyn. | Fred Klonsky:

Sunday in Brooklyn.

The footage shows Mr. Brown entering the store, Ferguson Market and Liquor, shortly after 1 a.m. on the day he died. He approaches the counter, hands over an item that appears to be a small bag and takes a shopping sack filled with cigarillos. Mr. Brown is shown walking toward the door with the sack, then turning around and handing the cigarillos back across the counter before exiting.

Jason Pollock, a documentary filmmaker who acquired the new tape, says the footage challenges the police narrative that Mr. Brown committed a strong-armed robbery when he returned to the store around noon that day. New York Times.

 

Governor Bruce Rauner and Mayor Rahm Emanuel are now trading insults over their inability to adequately fund schools.  It’s not like the old days, when they were shoulder-to-shoulder against the Chicago Teachers Union, with charter school expansion as their prime weapon.

While Rauner can’t pass a budget and Emanuel presides over wave after wave of fiscal Sunday in Brooklyn. | Fred Klonsky: