US police and racial bias under the spotlight
- 9 years ago
Marches, vigils and die-ins became a familiar sight on the streets of US cities in 2014. A string of high-profile shootings involving white police officers and unarmed black men proved a tipping point in race relations. Protests spread from coast to coast in scenes which recalled the civil rights rallies of the 1960s. As in the past, tensions between the police and black communities proved the flash point.
The fear and mistrust of the police reached fever pitch in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014, when a white police officer shot dead a young, unarmed black teen; Michael Brown. His death came to symbolise a systemic problem, the unfinished business of civil rights.
“This is just not about Ferguson,” explained St Louis Church Pastor Clinton Stancil.
“This has been going on in every city in America. Black young men have been marginalised, they have been dehumanised in every city in America, and so this is just, I think the Ferguson situation and Mike Brown situation has brought
The fear and mistrust of the police reached fever pitch in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014, when a white police officer shot dead a young, unarmed black teen; Michael Brown. His death came to symbolise a systemic problem, the unfinished business of civil rights.
“This is just not about Ferguson,” explained St Louis Church Pastor Clinton Stancil.
“This has been going on in every city in America. Black young men have been marginalised, they have been dehumanised in every city in America, and so this is just, I think the Ferguson situation and Mike Brown situation has brought