On the afternoon of August 9, 2014 an African-American male by the name of Michael Brown was fatally shot to death by a Caucasian male police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, MO. An investigation was immediately launched through the collection of evidence from the crime scene, multiple autopsies of Michael Brown’s body, and interviews with witnesses. For several months following the shooting and after the Grand Jury adjourned, there was immense public speculation and scrutiny over whether Officer Wilson justifiably shot in self-defense or in racially motivated cold blooded murder. This event produced protests, riots, and national media coverage. The two conflicting sides of the story were that Michael Brown was shot in the back with
Lola Akingbade, a St. Louis resident and third year student of Northeastern University, took action after the event of Brown’s death from Officer Wilson. In the event, 18-year old Michael Brown, a black teenager, was shot, unarmed, by white police officer Darren Wilson. This stirred a few problems, but mainly racial issues. Many African-Americans took to violence and started rampaging throughout Missouri. After these protests and riots, Lola decided to survey the people of St. Louis for their opinion on racial issue.
In the Saint Louis American, I discovered an article, “Ferguson, equity and health, three years later”, written by Bob Hughes. The article talks about Ferguson and the death of Michael Brown Jr. that occurred on August 9, 2014. He mentioned the spark of the protests and rallies in response to Michael Brown Jr.’s death, and Ferguson’s respond to police brutality, racial profiling and the disproportionate rate of injustices among black people. Hughes main focus was on the aftermath of the protests, now that three years have passed, to see if progress has been made.
The shooting occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Brown was caught on surveillance stealing Cigarillos from a convenience store and then shoved the store’s clerk out of his way. After the incident took place Darren Wilson was informed by a police dispatch of the robbery and the criminal’s physical descriptions. Wilson encountered the suspect walking in the middle of the street hindering traffic. He then recognized Brown, because he matched the dispatch description.
Introduction Michael Brown was an 18 year old African American man who was a suspect in a strong- arm robbery in Ferguson, Missouri. He was shot and killed on August 9th, 2014, by a man named Darren Wilson, a police officer with the local Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. The incident took place just a few miles from a convenience warehouse, where Darren had received a call pertaining to the actions of Michael Brown. Brown, the suspect, was as well accompanied by his friend Dorian Johnson at the time of the fatal incident who was 22 years old.
In February 2012 a racial war began. This war was fueled by the bias in the coverage from news broadcasters. This war brought grief, destruction, and unbalance in society. The shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman created unrest in the nation mainly because of the coverage by different popular news broadcasters. This tragedy stretched far beyond a shooting, but became a racial matter.
Then Zimmerman stated that Martin had come and asked if Zimmerman had a problem he then said no. Martin then beat up Zimmerman and spotted his gun and told Zimmerman that he was going to die tonight. Then Zimmerman drew his gun and shot Martin in the back. But according to the prosecutors story Trayvon Martin was being profiled and while talking to the dispatcher Zimmerman stated, “These assholes, they always get away.” (Washington Post) From what he said during the call can hint that he was profiling the general African American community.
It 's been about a year and a half since 18 year old Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson. This ordeal still holds a lot of controversy. I, myself believe that Wilson 's action were unjustifiable and way worse than just unfair. Regardless of whether or not Michael had stolen something, shooting to kill was unnessecary. It was also unacceptabe and disrespectful for his body to be taken away hours later and in a cop car.
The killing of Michael Brown led to an outrage within the black community in Ferguson due to the failure for the indictment of Darren Wilson, the police officer who was responsible for the murder. Michael Brown was shot by Darren Wilson 6 times. The Ferguson community believe the justice system is broken and argue that the killing shows racial profiling at its peak. The Ferguson Police Department left Michael Browns body on the street and they also refused to answer questions to identify the officer that had killed Michael Brown. The New York Times, an American newspaper company, states that “The grand juries task was to determine whether there was probable cause to believe that Officer Wilson should be charged with a crime, and if so, which one.”
The officer ordered Michael to cooperate but he resisted and later tried to assault the officer according to witnesses. The officer discharged multiple rounds onto the unarmed Michael Brown, later killing the criminal. The article discusses the 1960’s and the racial output as a similar situation to the ones we face today with racial violence. Throughout history we see violence between
The exctuaray pain of a death of a child is a mother 's worst nightmare. They feel it is the only way to raise attention. In the city of Ferguson, Michael Brown was an unarmed black teen and was shot by police; this was the beginning of a wave of uprisings against police brutality nationwide. Michael Brown’s death proved how race played a role in the police system. The alteration was a interracial conflict.
In society there are many young black males and females that have been killed in the past years due to police brutality. Michael Brown was one of these young people. Thousands of people were protesting against the police after this shooting, saying how outraged they are that this happened and also how they targeted him because of his skin color. Michael Brown was shot dead on the day August 9th, 2014. The police
On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by former officer George Zimmerman. Instantly media had blown up with headlines involving the tragic fatality. Protests occurred titled as “Black Lives Matter” during the trial of Florida v. Zimmerman. These protests led to distrustful actions toward American government and American Law Enforcement. This protest wasn’t just a segmented time period event, it’s lasted from 2012 to present day and occurs daily and is expanding rapidly.
People were outraged, but for very different reasons. To me, it seemed simple, Michael Brown was too young to die for suspected petty theft. I didn’t originally see the shooting as a race issue, but when the majority of news sites
People question the use of authority by police officers. The officers involved in the deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Furguson, Missouri and the death of Eric Garner by chokehold are two types of incidents that sparked the thought of abuse of power by police officers. People might have only seen the skin color and overlooked what violation was made beforehand. “One of the most common interactions between the police and civilians on a daily basis is the traffic stop” says katv.com.
