FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) â Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson did not receive a severance package when he resigned over the weekend, the St. Louis suburb’s mayor said Sunday. Wilson, 28, won’t receive any further pay or benefits, and he and the city have cut their ties, Mayor James Knowles told reporters a day after Wilson […]
The parents of Michael Brown Jr. hit the morning shows on Wednesday to talk about the grand juryâs decision this week to not indict officer Darren Wilson, and the subsequent unrest in Ferguson. âOur son is gone and weâre dealing with it, but there are other families that went through the same situation, and we […]
People protesting the Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury decision took to the streets in cities across the U.S. for a second day Tuesday, showing that the racially charged case has inflamed tensions even hundreds of miles from the predominantly black St. Louis suburb. Peaceful demonstrators marched in Seattle and disrupted traffic in St. Louis and Cleveland. […]
Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson will face no consequences for the August 9 shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, Jr., and he penned…
Attorney Ben Crump, the lawyer for the Brown family who also represented Trayvon Martin’s parents, talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the grand jury’s decision to not indict Office Darren Wilson in the shooting of Mike Brown. TJMS: Where do you look to go from here? Well, we will explore all the legal […]
President Barack Obama appealed for calm and understanding in Ferguson on Monday after a grand jury decided not to indict in the death of Michael Brown, pleading with both residents and police officers to show restraint. “We are a nation built on the rule of law, so we need to accept that this decision was […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) â A grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting sparked weeks of sometimes-violent protests. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced the decision Monday evening. A grand jury of nine whites and three […]
As a grand jury weighs his fate, Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson (pictured front), who fatally shot unarmed Michael Brown, is in the final…
Black residents in Ferguson, Missouri are hoping for justice in the Michael Brown case but they are also bracing for the worst possible scenario: That a grand jury in St. Louis clears Police Officer Darren Wilson of shooting the unarmed teenager to death on August 9. A flurry of private meetings are taking place in […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) â Officers arrested 17 protesters and used pepper spray to subdue some of them Sunday in a St. Louis neighborhood not far from the suburb where violence erupted this summer after the shooting of a black man by a white policeman. The arrests were the only incident in the ‘Ferguson October’ initiative, […]
I believed that Ferguson was all but forgotten. After all, Darren Wilson, the police offer who executed Michael Brown has still not been arrested. I figured he wouldnât be. I thought that the rise in rage, drive, and hunger for justice in Ferguson, Missouri had reached its crescendo. This weekend renewed my hope for justice, […]
Iâm pleased that President Barack Obama reassured African-Americans Saturday that he remains focused on the dangers facing young black men and police across this country, even as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation in the midst of the Michael Brown investigation. Black America â and certainly Michael Brownâs family — needed to hear […]
