Ferguson protests mostly peaceful on anniversary of Brown shooting

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Hundreds of people marched, prayed and observed a moment of silence in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday, a year to the day after a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death, igniting months of protests and a national debate on race and justice.

A racially mixed crowd of young and old, some pushing children in strollers, turned out for a day of commemorative events in this mostly black St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown, 18, was gunned down on Aug. 9, 2014.

Brown's shooting, and a grand jury's subsequent decision to spare police officer Darren Wilson from criminal charges in the killing, spawned a prolonged wave of demonstrations in Ferguson that boiled over into rioting and arson at times and spawned sympathy rallies across the country.

But it also sparked greater scrutiny of racial bias within the U.S. criminal justice system, giving rise to the "Black Lives Matter" movement that gained momentum from a series of other high-profile slayings of unarmed minorities at the hands of white police in cities such as New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Cincinnati.

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[AuntPatsy]

1. I can't help but feel so little has changed

[Travis_0004]

2. Twitter said a beauty shop was looted and there was a drive by shooting

I realize 99% of the people were lawful, but Im always intruged when i see the line 'mostly peaceful'.

[romanic]

3. Assholes

will use any opportunity to loot and do stupid shit. They did the same thing during the riots in Ferguson.