Michael Brown; Ferguson, Missouri
Michael Brown was an African American who was shot by a white police officer after after Michael attempted to attack the officer.The by standers that saw the accident happen all stated that brown did nothing to be shot, just walked away and got on his knees pleading no to be shot. According to the autopsy this is in correct, through research he attempted to grab the officers gun and then started to walk away but turned back when the officer told him to stop but attempted to attack the officer but was shot. Large amounts of people claim he was shot because he was black not because he assaulted the officer.
Further investigation and autopsies are working against Brown, witnesses state that he was shot in the back as if he was walking away trying to stop the problem, but there was not a single shot to the back on Michael. Investigations showed that Michael purposefully attempted to grab for the officers gun, which resulted him to be shot in the head by the officer. Brown then walked away and started to come back was was further shot before another altercation.
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From Michael Brown's shooting large riots have occured in the Ferguson, Missouri area when the jury decided not to charge the officer with anything. These riots started because the members of the riots believe nothing happened to the officer because he was a white man shooting a black man.
This picture shows what damage was done in response of the "No Bill" to the officer
This video shows the damage and riots that had taken place in Ferguson by the riots mad about the white officer shooting a black man thinking he was shot because he was black rather than the officer was defending himself from the large Michael Brown.
Through all these riots and court cases racial tensions have become very high between blacks and whites. Barack Obama sent a few people to Michael Browns funeral enraging the white race because of this. A white man was shot and killed by a black police officer but nothing was said on the news or the government. Extremely high tensions have come into play from these decisions. If the government officials go to one funeral they need to go to the others to prevent racial tensions, rather than doing one and causing problems
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