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August 9th

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 2014
    The Record

    Michael Brown killed in Ferguson

    Officer Darren Wilson shoots and kills eighteen-year-old Michael Brown Jr. on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's body remains in the street for four and a half hours. Protests draw a militarized police response and become the catalyst for the 2015 U.S. Justice Department report documenting Ferguson's systemic policing and court abuses.

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