Tag: Mike Brown Protests
After midnight on August 13th, St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer Robert Cohen captured the image of a protestor throwing back a smoking tear gas cylinder fired by the police in the streets of Ferguson. From news and social media to t-shirts and street art, the image has become iconic of the conflict and excessive police force on peaceful protestors in the wake of a cop’s fatal shooting of […]
Marcellus Buckley, 22, reads his poem, “The People vs The Police” on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson Friday evening. (Video: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Sam Boyd walked into Insite Media’s small Ferguson office on Wednesday afternoon and wanted a t-shirt made. Boyd, like so many others here, wanted something original that would encapsulate what Michael Brown’s death represents. He took a clipboard and filled out what would be on front of the shirt, then the back: “Hands up, Shoot […]
After a public uproar over the St. Louis County Police Department’s handling of the Michael Brown protests, Governor Jay Nixon put the Missouri State Highway Patrol in charge of security for the small town. Click through the gallery above for photos of officers from that unit and various other law enforcement agencies currently operating in […]
Two white people showed up in Ferguson on Wednesday evening carrying signs in support of Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, angering some on what was an otherwise calm night. A crowd of protesters (and journalists) quickly formed around them and one young man lobbed a water bottle in their […]
On the day the National Guard arrived in Ferguson, police cracked down on anyone in the street. Cops arrested citizens and journalists, and commanded that anyone on the street keep walking, so people wouldn’t congregate. The curfew was gone, but by nightfall, the teargas returned and Ferguson was being forced back into the shadows. There […]
