Michael Brown

…police custody, including those of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York, in 2014, as well as that of Freddie Gray in Baltimore in 2015, prompted widespread protest. The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012,…

…when the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, by a white police officer resulted in days of civil unrest and protests fueled by tensions between the predominantly Black population of Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb, and its predominantly white government and police department. The president…

…2014 the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, resulted in days of civil unrest and protests fueled by tensions between Ferguson’s predominantly black population and its predominantly white government and police department. The incident drew national and international attention.…

…a policeman shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, during Brown’s arrest. Protests against those actions and against court decisions not to indict the involved officers continued into 2015, and in April of that year rioting erupted in Baltimore, Maryland, on the day of the funeral of Freddie Gray,…

Michael Brown: In August 2014 Michael Brown, age 18, was stopped by an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Wilson suspected Brown of having stolen cigars from a convenience store. A witness said that Brown, who was unarmed, had put his hands…