Five years ago, Michael Brown, Jr. was killed in Ferguson, Missouri. To mark his death, I put together 2 stories—one on what has & hasn’t changed in Ferguson & one on the trauma people who intimately experienced the protests & unrest there still face. Both will be on @NewsHour.
Here’s the first piece:
In 2014, Ferguson issued nearly 12K tickets. Most were for minor municipal code violations. In 2017, that number was under 2K.
But statewide, black drivers in Missouri are still nearly twice as likely as others to be stopped.
A number of black Ferguson residents said they still very much fear being targeted by police because of their race.
Meanwhile, I met a longtime white Ferguson resident who told me, on camera, that she can tell the race of driver by the way they navigate the roads.
The mayor of Ferguson said: “There is no police department in Missouri, very few in this country, that do all of the things that are required by our consent decree.”
Fran Griffin, a Ferguson protester who is now on the city council said: “That's the wrong mind-set to have.”
Here is part two of my stories on Ferguson. It’s all about the trauma people who intimately experienced the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death and the unrest. I interviewed Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, who now worries about her 15 year old son pbs.org/newshour/show/…
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