Police Chief Tom Jackson explain why he released robbery footage, prior to the shooting death of Michael Brown. Officer Darren Wilson stopped Brown and his friend because ‘they were walking down the middle of the street, blocking traffic, that was it,’ Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson now says. Earlier Friday, his department released footage of someone resembling Brown stealing a box of cigars, as well as a police report calling Brown a suspect. The teen’s family called those moves part of a ‘smear campaign.’
