Michael Brown Jr.

On a summer afternoon in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014, an encounter between 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr., a Black male, and a white police officer, Darren Wilson, tragically concluded with Brown's death. The events that transpired in a matter of minutes would ignite a national conversation about race and policing. Brown, who had recently graduated from high school, was walking with a friend, Dorian Johnson, in the middle of a street when they were approached by Officer Wilson. An alter ...

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