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Good luck Ella, hope you win sister.
Ferguson mayor faces voters for first time since unrest
FERGUSON, Mo.— More than two years after this St. Louis suburb exploded in angry — and at times violent — protest following the police shooting of Michael Brown, Ferguson’s white mayor is asking the community’s predominantly black residents to give him a third, three-year term in office.
Mayor James Knowles III, 37, will face voters for the first time since the August 2014 fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer pushed this community into the center of a larger national debate about police relations in African-American communities ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...aces-voters-first-time-since-unrest/99780164/
Knowles (right), a lifelong Ferguson resident, is being challenged by Ella Jones (left), who became the town’s first black female city council member when she was elected less than seven months after the Brown shooting. She has lived in the community for 40 years.
(Photo: Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY)
Aamer Madhani , USA TODAYPublished 2:43 p.m. ET March 29, 2017 | Updated 6 hours ago
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Good luck Ella, hope you win sister.
Ferguson mayor faces voters for first time since unrest
FERGUSON, Mo.— More than two years after this St. Louis suburb exploded in angry — and at times violent — protest following the police shooting of Michael Brown, Ferguson’s white mayor is asking the community’s predominantly black residents to give him a third, three-year term in office.
Mayor James Knowles III, 37, will face voters for the first time since the August 2014 fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer pushed this community into the center of a larger national debate about police relations in African-American communities ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...aces-voters-first-time-since-unrest/99780164/
Knowles (right), a lifelong Ferguson resident, is being challenged by Ella Jones (left), who became the town’s first black female city council member when she was elected less than seven months after the Brown shooting. She has lived in the community for 40 years.
(Photo: Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY)
Aamer Madhani , USA TODAYPublished 2:43 p.m. ET March 29, 2017 | Updated 6 hours ago
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