HOW FERGUSON WOKE US UP
On Aug. 10, 2014, my first day of protest after the shooting of Michael Brown Jr., I stood outside the Ferguson Police Department and asked an officer why, on the night prior, he had brought German shepherds to a black community in grief, evoking the trauma of the mid-century civil rights movement. “Well, did anyone die?” he replied.
If that’s the standard, I thought, that’s precisely the problem.
“Yes. His name was Michael
