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Michael Brown’s Family to File Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Against Ferguson: Attorney
The family of Michael Brown, the black teen killed last year by a white Ferguson police officer, plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city, attorneys for the family said. The civil suit...
View ArticleObama to Limit Military-Style Equipment Provided to Local Police Departments...
In a surprise announcement coming nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is banning the federal government from providing some military-style...
View ArticleMichael Brown’s Father Calls Chicago Art Exhibit Depicting the Fatal Shooting...
A shocking and provocative art exhibit in Chicago depicting the Ferguson, Mo., shooting of Michael Brown recently opened in Chicago, and Brown’s father, Michael Brown Senior, is calling the exhibit...
View ArticleAnniversary of Michael Brown’s Death Expected to Bring Silent Prayers,...
When black teenager Michael Brown lay dead on a Ferguson street, shot by a white police officer, it happened in a town with a white mayor, white city manager, white police chief and a nearly all-white...
View ArticlePolice Return Fire in Ferguson Shooting on Anniversary of Michael Brown’s...
As new interim #Ferguson police chief talks to us shots ring out. Listen. Tears and screaming after pic.twitter.com/mY7zbKXOoO — Sara Sidner (@sarasidnerCNN) August 10, 2015 Multiple shots erupted in...
View ArticleFerguson Officers Shoot, Critically Injure Protester Who Allegedly Fired...
A day of peaceful vigils to mark the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s shooting death turned ugly late Sunday when protesters threw rocks and bottles at officers, and police critically injured a...
View Article2 Reporters Charged Over Ferguson Coverage As Some 23 Arrested in Anniversary...
Watch Video A day of civil disobedience that saw several arrests in Ferguson ended Monday with some protesters throwing rocks and bottles at police. The St. Louis County police said frozen water...
View ArticleJustice Department Sues Ferguson Over Police Conduct
The U.S. Justice Department is suing Ferguson, Missouri, alleging a pattern and practice of unconstitutional police conduct in the city. “We intend to aggressively prosecute this case,” Attorney...
View ArticleNew Surveillance Footage of Michael Brown Before Fatal Ferguson Police...
Watch Video New video captured hours before Michael Brown was killed shows the 18-year-old exchanging marijuana for cigarillos with the clerks of a Ferguson, Missouri, store, a documentary director...
View ArticleSettlement Reached in Michael Brown Wrongful Death Lawsuit; Details Kept Private
The family of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, has reached a settlement in its wrongful death lawsuit against the city. A large memorial photo...
View ArticleBerkeley, Missouri, Police Say Fatally Shot Teen Raised Gun Before Officer Fired
A Missouri police officer shot and killed a teenager Tuesday night in Berkeley, Missouri, just 2 miles from the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, where Michael Brown was killed by police, an event that...
View ArticleFerguson PD Spokesman Faces Disciplinary Action After Calling Michael Brown...
The spokesman for the Ferguson, Missouri, police department is on unpaid leave and facing disciplinary action after reportedly describing the memorial honoring Michael Brown as a “pile of trash” in an...
View ArticleDOJ Investigation Finds Systematic Discrimination Against Blacks by Ferguson...
A Justice Department civil rights investigation has concluded that the Ferguson Police Department and the city’s municipal court engaged in a “pattern and practice” of discrimination against African...
View ArticleFerguson’s City Manager Resigns in Wake of Scathing DOJ Report
Ferguson, Missouri, City Manager John Shaw resigned Tuesday in the wake of a scathing Justice Department report. John Shaw is shown in a photo from the University of Missouri–St. Louis website. The...
View ArticleFerguson Police Chief Resigns; Gets One Year of Severance Pay
Embattled Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson resigned Wednesday, a week after a scathing Justice Department report slammed his department. Jackson and the city “have agreed to a mutual separation,”...
View ArticleState, County to Police Protests in Ferguson After 2 Officers Shot; Manhunt...
With tensions running high after the shooting of two officers in Ferguson, Missouri, state and county police are once again taking over protest security in the St. Louis suburb. St. Louis County...
View ArticleMan, 20, Faces Multiple Charges in Connection to Ferguson Shooting That...
Breaking update: The man arrested for the shooting of two police officers during last week’s protests in Ferguson, Missouri, has been identified as Jeffrey Williams, 20, St. Louis County Prosecuting...
View ArticleMissouri Prosecutor Who Oversaw Grand Jury Inquiry Into Police Shooting of...
A Ferguson city councilman appears to have defeated the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney who oversaw the controversial grand jury inquiry into the 2014 police killing of unarmed black teen Michael...
View ArticleFerguson elects first woman and first black mayor in city’s history
The Missouri city where the death of a black teen set off weeks of nationwide protests and outrage in 2014 elected its first woman and first black mayor Tuesday night, according to CNN affiliate KMOV....
View ArticleCori Bush, who led protests in Ferguson, ousts 20-year Rep. Clay in Missouri...
Cori Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer’s fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Tuesday in Missouri’s...
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