Law Forum : Ferguson Issues and Post-Michael Brown Movement (BLM) - Protests

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Wounds are still raw in Ferguson, three years after Michael Brown


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Left to right, former Police Chief Tom Jackson, Police Chief Delrish Moss, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Lezley McSpadden, Rev. Tommie Pierson, Sabrina Webb. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News, photos; Michael Thomas for Yahoo News [2], Mark J. Terrill/AP, Jeff Roberson/AP, Michael Thomas for Yahoo News [2]; background photos: Charlie Riedel/AP, David Carson/St Louis Post-Dispatch/ZUMAPRESS.com, Lucas Jackson/Reuters)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/wounds-s...-090046238.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_15





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Caitlin Dickson
Breaking News Reporter
Yahoo NewsAugust 9, 2017


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Lessons from Ferguson should not be lost to revisionist history

... So when you hear our young people asserting that Black Lives Matter, they are not saying that to diminish the worth of others, they are simply calling out a hard, hateful truth that we can no longer deny: In the United States, in 2017, some lives are still worth more than others. They are justifiably outraged by that, and so am I ...

http://www.stltoday.com/opinion/col...cle_34177dee-aef0-5108-80fc-3bc7bb12ebdc.html



By William Lacy Clay


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IN ST. LOUIS, JASON STOCKLEY VERDICT IN FATAL SHOOTING OF ANTHONY LAMAR SMITH COULD BE THE NEXT FERGUSON
BY MELINA DELKIC ON 9/6/17 AT 6:12 PM


... Almost exactly three years after the trial of Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown tore St. Louis apart, a similar trial threatens to reopen old wounds.

Six years ago, Jason Stockley, a 36-year-old, white policeman, shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith, then 24, in a car chase following what Stockley said was a drug transaction; just before he shot Smith, Stockley said, “Going to kill this (expletive deleted), don’t you know it,” according to dashboard camera video cited in closing arguments at Stockley's trial ...

http://www.newsweek.com/jason-stockley-anthony-lamar-smith-michael-brown-ferguson-660680


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Former St. Louis Police Officer Is Acquitted Of Murder In Anthony Lamar Smith Case

... A judge has acquitted former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley of first-degree murder in the shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith in late 2011, the verdict over Smith's killing has been highly anticipated — and it prompted protests outside the courthouse.

Here's an overview of the case from St. Louis Public Radio: ...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ar-smith-cas?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news



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