Michael Brown: The Death that Shook Ferguson
The police shooting of an unarmed black teenager sparked unrest and national debate about systemic racism.
"We are sick of being teargassed, we are sick of being shot at," a demonstrator yells during street protests in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. "All of these young people deserve respect and justice."
A teenager named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9 of that year in the majority-black suburb of St Louis - the fourth unarmed black man to be killed by police in the United States in a month.
He was shot at least six times, his body left on the street for hours as community members watched on.
The racial makeup of that police department, like many others, has not substantially or dramatically changed.
Adolphus Pruitt, president of the...