Wesley Bell, a criminal justice reform advocate, beat Bob McCulloch in the Democratic primary for the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s seat. McCulloch is the prosecutor known for refusing to prosecute the officer responsible for Mike Brown’s death. People were ready for a prosecutor that will have compassion toward the community, and that’s what they got! […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Four years after the deadly police shooting that triggered racial unrest in Ferguson and helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement, a black city councilman scored an election upset and ousted the white prosecutor criticized over his handling of the case. Wesley Bell’s stunning defeat of seven-term St. Louis […]
Nearly all the new economic development in Ferguson, Missouri has gone to the white community since the 2014 riots following the police killing of Michael Brown.
Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown who was shot and killed by police in August of 2014, has announced that she will be running for Ferguson City Council according to The Root. After her son’s death, McSpadden threw herself into law enforcement reform having received her high school diploma, written a book, campaigned all over […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Voters in Ferguson, Missouri, opted for experience over change in re-electing a mayor who has led them through a tumultuous 32 months since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown thrust the St. Louis suburb into the national debate over race. James Knowles III won a third term, holding off a […]
3/15/17- Rev. Al Sharpton talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the newest video evidence that suggest Mike Brown didn’t commit a burglary as the police suggested in 2014. “Why wasn’t the public shown this in the first place. They say it’s irrelevant to the case. If he didn’t steal the cigarillos then whey […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A prosecutor was critical Monday of store surveillance footage from a new documentary about the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, calling it a heavily edited attempt to distort an incident that occurred several hours before Brown died in an encounter with a police officer. Filmmaker Jason Pollock responded by calling St. […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The city of Ferguson, Missouri, has dropped its appeal of a federal jury’s $3 million award to survivors of a naked, unarmed, black man who died after a police officer repeatedly shocked him with a stun gun and will pay the money, court filings show. A federal judge in St. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A student’s painting that divided members of Congress for its depiction of Ferguson, Missouri, has been removed from its Capitol Hill display, this time perhaps permanently. Several Republicans had complained about the painting, which shows a pig in a police uniform aiming a gun at a protester, and even took down the […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown‘s parents are objecting to a request from Ferguson for their son’s medical and academic records as the city defends itself against a lawsuit the parents filed over the 2014 police shooting death of the unarmed 18-year-old. Michael Brown Sr. and Lezley McSpadden, in December court filings, asked U.S. […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Two years after Michael Brown‘s shooting death put a national spotlight on Ferguson police, the suburban St. Louis city is struggling to maintain the number of officers it needs. The department is facing 13 vacancies. It’s down to a staff of 36 compared to 55 in 2014. Some officers have retired, […]
A lawsuit accuses 13 St. Louis suburbs of extorting poor Black residents. Attorneys say they're operating debtor's prisons.
