Ferguson, Five Years On

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• Five years after Ferguson, Mo., was upended by a police shooting, setting off a national reckoning, a generation has grown up amid uneven progress.

  

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  He’s a Veteran of Upheaval, Molded by Ferguson’s Traumas. He’s 7.

  The New York Times - Jack Healy

  FERGUSON, Mo. — David Morrison carries the scars of Ferguson’s upheaval. A veteran protester, he has fled gunshots and tear gas, marched, waved signs and played dead on the asphalt in years of activism that unspooled after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. …

• The death of Michael Brown Jr. set into motion profound changes in policing, race relations and society that continue to reverberate.

  

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  Ferguson Anniversary: Michael Brown’s Father Calls for New Investigation

  The New York Times - Timothy Williams

  Here’s what you need to know: Michael Brown Sr. is still searching for answers. • Here is what happened on Aug. 9, 2014, and in the aftermath of the shooting. • Mourners stood in silence to represent the four and a half hours Michael Brown’s body lay in the street. • At least six Ferguson activists have died …

• Three photographers sent to cover the unrest in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death reflect back on their work for The New York Times.

  

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  Photos of Ferguson: What They Saw

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  Five years ago, Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. The protests and demonstrations that followed included tear gas, riot gear, police officers in armored vehicles, fires and looting. To some who saw what was happening, it looked as …

• The energy of the street protests has faded, but it carries on in national conversations about race, and in the lives of the people who were there.

  

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  The Lives of Ferguson Activists, Five Years Later

  The New York Times - Timothy Williams

  It wasn’t until the QuikTrip gas station was burned and looted on Aug. 10, 2014, that the protests began to take hold in the public consciousness. The day before, the body of Michael Brown, a young black man fatally shot by a white police officer, was left lying for hours on a street in Ferguson, …

• Five years after a fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., began a reckoning for American policing, more officers now wear body cameras. But shootings have not slowed.

  

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  Policing: What Changed (and Didn’t) Since Michael Brown Died

  The New York Times - Mitch Smith

  BALTIMORE — The video shows how much policing has changed. And also how much it has stayed the same. In shaky frames recorded by a body camera, a Baltimore police sergeant chases after a man who was walking calmly away. A second officer wrestles the man to the ground and handcuffs him. The perceived …

• Despite five years of changes in Missouri, black drivers continue to be stopped at much higher rates than white drivers in communities throughout the state.

  

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  Stopped, Ticketed, Fined: The Pitfalls of Driving While Black in Ferguson

  The New York Times - John Eligon

  FERGUSON, Mo. — They avoid main roads. They maintain good posture. Sometimes they choose not to drive at all. For years, some black drivers in the St. Louis area have taken those precautions to avoid getting pulled over by the police. And yet it has not seemed to prevent them from getting stopped, …