Killing of Michael Brown
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On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis.
Brown in an undated photo
St. Louis County police protect the scene eight hours after the shooting
Bruising on Wilson's face after the shooting
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson at the news conference
Black Lives Matter
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Black Lives Matter is a decentralized political and social movement that aims to highlight racism, discrimination and racial inequality experienced by Black people in the United States, and to promote
Killing of Michael Brown
…Lewis, 2016's This Unruly Mess I've Made: "My success is the product of the same system that let off Darren Wilson – guilty" In 2016, a chapter about Black Lives Matter memorials to Brown and others was included in the book, "The Sustainers: Being, Building and Doing Good through the Sacred Spaces of Civil Rights, Human…
Black Lives Matter protest on September 20, 2015, against police brutality in St. Paul, Minnesota
A Black Lives Matter die-in over rail tracks, protesting police brutality in Saint Paul, Minnesota (September 20, 2015)
A "Hands up!" sign displayed at a Ferguson protest in August 2014
Black Lives Matter demonstration in Oakland, California, December 2014