Abstract On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year old Black man, was fatally shot by
Darren Wilson, a white policeman with the Ferguson Police Department. The incident
sparked protests and acts of vandalism in Ferguson as well as widespread calls for an
investigation into the incident. On September 3, 2014, The Justice Department announced
that it would open a broad civil rights investigation that would examine whether the
Ferguson police had a history of discrimination or misuse of force beyond the Michael Brown …

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed African American high school senior, was
shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. For months afterward, protestors took to
the streets demanding justice, testifying to the racist and exploitative police department and
court system, and connecting the shooting of Brown with the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric
Garner, and other young black men at the hands of police across the country. In the wake of
these protests, the Department of Justice launched a six-month investigation, resulting in a …