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The Ferguson unrest (sometimes called the Ferguson uprising, Ferguson protests, or the Ferguson riots) was a series of protests and riots which began in Ferguson, Missouri on August 10, 2014, the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by FPD officer Darren Wilson.
Date: August 9, 2014; 10 years ago (): Time: 12:01–12:03 p.m. ()Location: Ferguson, Missouri, U.S.: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Homicide, police shooting: Participants: Darren Wilson (shooter); Michael Brown (deceased); Dorian Johnson (accompanied Brown); Deaths: Michael Brown: Non-fatal injuries: Darren Wilson: Charges: None: Litigation: Wrongful death lawsuit settled for undisclosed amount: On ...
Riots that night led to the burning of police cars and businesses, looting and other violence. Investigators have not spoken to Head, Jackson said, but that is expected to happen soon.
1989 – 1989 Tampa riot, February 1, Tampa, Florida a riot began following the death of an African American man while in police custody. The disturbance lasted for an hour with 150 youths participating. A grocery store was looted and set on fire. Four police officers, including one involved in the initial arrest, were injured. [48] [49]
The unarmed black teen shot dead August 9 by a white cop in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson is finally being laid to rest. Michael Brown 's killing by white police officer Darren Wilson , 28 ...
On Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown and a friend were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a two-lane street in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, when a police officer drove by and told ...
Ferguson, Missouri, August 17, 2014. The term was coined by St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson in a 2014 column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. [6] Dotson said in the column that, after the protests in Ferguson caused by the shooting of Michael Brown that August, his officers had been hesitant to enforce the law due to fears of being charged, and that "the criminal element is feeling empowered ...
BY DAVID A. LIEB FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- After a week of violent clashes between police and protesters, Missouri authorities leading the investigation into the police shooting death of an unarmed ...