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VIDEO: ‘On the Record’ Retraces the Path Michael Brown Took Before His Fatal Shooting

http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com...michael-brown-took-before-his-fatal-shooting/

Reporters start at the convenience mart that was robbed, and the clerk assaulted, and continue to the site of the confrontation.

 

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Video of Parcell explaining the injuries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpN1x8f72Pk

 

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This is an extended interview with Dorian. It is just below the short version at the top of the page.

http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/08/13/dorian-johnson-michael-brown-eyewitness/13986845/

 

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Witness: Brown fell toward officer

Anderson Cooper 360
August 20, 2014
CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to Michael Brady about what he witnessed in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson.

Transcript:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/20/acd.02.html

Video:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/v...v-brady-ferguson-shooting-eyewitness.cnn.html

 

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http://www.kmov.com/special-coverag...-at-Ferguson-town-hall-meeting-273249381.html

Residents can share experiences with police at Ferguson town hall meeting

A town hall meeting is being held about the situation in Ferguson at St. Paul AME church Friday evening.


http://fox2now.com/2014/08/29/national-march-on-ferguson-to-be-held-saturday/

National “March on Ferguson” to be held Saturday

Some national leaders and local hip hop artists are expected to take part in a “National March on Ferguson” Saturday.


http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/cities-consider-body-cameras-wake-ferguson

Cities consider body cameras for cops in wake of Ferguson

wo major U.S. cities announced Thursday that they are moving forward with efforts to arm police with body cameras, to improve accountability and transparency.

The announcements come on the heels of the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old, unarmed black man, who was shot and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Outraged protesters clashed with police after eyewitness accounts of Brown’s death emerged, conflicting with the narrative offered by the authorities. A grand jury is currently hearing evidence in the case against Wilson and will decide whether or not to charge him with a felony.


http://www.msnbc.com/all/cop-who-shoved-don-lemon-and-threatened-kill-everybody-get-full-pension

Cop who threatened to ‘kill everybody’ expected to get full pension

The St. Louis County police officer who was recently suspended after video surfaced of him threatening to “kill everybody” and who shoved CNN’s Don Lemon on live television in Ferguson has retired.

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_6aa58550-4c8a-5df5-8fa3-e00b45a4b1fc.html

Hundreds of protesters march to Ferguson police department

For several hours Saturday, hundreds of people demanding justice in the shooting of Michael Brown stood in front of the Ferguson Police Department with yellow police tape separating them from several dozen police officers.

The protesters were part of a march that started in the morning along West Florissant Avenue, the site of multiple protests and unrest over the past three weeks following the fatal shooting of Brown, 18, by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson.


http://www.kmov.com/special-coverag...rks-3-weeks-after-Browns-death-273315001.html

Ferguson rally marks 3 weeks after Brown's death

Hundreds converged on Ferguson on Saturday to march for Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was shot and killed by a white police officer three weeks ago to the day. His death stoked national discourse about police tactics and race, which the rally's organizers pledged to continue.

Led by Brown's parents and other relatives, Saturday's throng peacefully made their way down Canfield Drive in the St. Louis suburb to a makeshift memorial that marked the spot where Brown was shot Aug. 9 by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.


http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/loca...tment-of-justice-listening-concerns/14858073/

Department of Justice listening to citizens' concerns

The Department of Justice is assuring citizens it is ready to help make change.

Representatives from the department sat on a panel at a town hall meeting Friday night. Over 100 citizens turned out bringing concerns ranging from lack of voter participation, to claims of inequality.

 

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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ferguson-the-long-road-forward

Ferguson turns protest into political power

Before Michael Brown’s death, all Taurean Russell wanted was to finish college, teach history and coach high school football. But that changed August 9, when photos of Brown’s lifeless body, shot by a cop and left sprawled in the street, kept appearing on social media.

“I saw a dead body on my timeline. It kept appearing hour after hour and somebody said ‘I hope somebody gets up and does something about it,” said Russell, 30. “Then I heard his mother on TV say, ‘Why did they kill my son.’”

Those words triggered something in Russell. He rallied friends and they headed down to the Ferguson Police Department looking for answers. They didn’t get any so they went back the next day and the day after.

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_88e0067c-d3e6-5599-a581-a58d0022f1f8.html

Ferguson police are using body cameras

Police officers here began wearing body cameras on Saturday as marchers took to the streets in the most recent protest of a shooting two weeks earlier by a city officer that left an unarmed teenager dead.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said his department was given about 50 body cameras by two companies, Safety Visions and Digital Ally, about a week ago. The companies donated the body cameras after the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson.


http://www.kmov.com/special-coverag...rks-3-weeks-after-Browns-death-273315001.html

Ferguson rally marks 3 weeks after Brown's death

Hundreds converged on Ferguson on Saturday to march for Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was shot and killed by a white police officer three weeks ago to the day. His death stoked national discourse about police tactics and race, which the rally's organizers pledged to continue.

Led by Brown's parents and other relatives, Saturday's throng peacefully made their way down Canfield Drive in the St. Louis suburb to a makeshift memorial that marked the spot where Brown was shot Aug. 9 by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.


http://fox2now.com/2014/08/31/ferguson-protesters-plan-to-halt-highway-traffic-on-labor-day/

Ferguson protesters plan to halt highway traffic on Labor Day

More than a thousand people took to the streets Saturday for the march. They shut down West Florissant Avenue, marching to the spot where Michael Brown was shot and killed three weeks ago, then to a park in Ferguson.

 

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...9b47ba-2ee2-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html

Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson, the friend who witnessed his shooting

Dorian Johnson had just moved from his mother’s house in St. Louis to a two-bedroom spot in the Canfield Green Apartments that he was sharing with his then-pregnant girlfriend and another roommate.

Sometime in March, a buddy stopped by with a stranger.

“Wow,” Johnson said, “that’s a big dude.”

The dude, Michael Brown, was 6-foot-4, and he had brushed past Johnson with barely a hello as he headed to the video-game console and began to play.

 

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At Ferguson March, Call to Halt Traffic in Labor Day Highway Protest

Organizers at the rally called on demonstrators to drive on Interstate 70 and other area highways at 4:30 p.m. Monday, turn their hazard lights on and stop their vehicles for four and a half minutes to symbolize the four and a half hours that Mr. Brown’s body lay in the street.

“We’re going to tie it down, lock it down,” Anthony Shahid, one of the lead organizers of the rally, told supporters from the stage at a park. The following week, if the coalition’s demands were not met, including that Officer Wilson be fired and arrested on charges of murder, another four-minute traffic shutdown would occur on two days instead of just one, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/us/at-ferguson-march-call-for-labor-day-highway-protest.html




Michael Brown highway protest postponed

A planned protest to briefly shut down highways today in the St. Louis area has been postponed at the request of Michael Brown's family, one of the protest organizers said.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...3-8e2c-c64819382bf6.html#.VAS8q7GShHY.twitter

 

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/st-louis-suspened-racist-rants-article-1.1914569

ANOTHER St. Louis area cop exposed, suspended for making racist rants

Here we go again.

Another St. Louis cop has been suspended over making ignorant and threatening statements in public.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/multim...tml_4e061015-9755-5586-af69-c11bf6b4e19a.html

Ferguson Videos: Interviews, rallies and more



http://www.kmov.com/special-coverag...on-shooting-called-off-for-now-273482891.html

Protesters attempt to block traffic to protest Michael Brown, Jr. shooting

Even though organizers said a protest to tie up traffic on local interstates had been put on hold at the request of Michael Brown Jr’s family, several protesters elected to try to block traffic Monday afternoon.


http://fox2now.com/2014/09/01/protesters-hoping-to-stop-traffic-on-highways-around-st-louis/

Protesters hoping to stop traffic on highways around St. Louis

Some demonstrators who marched in Ferguson on saturday are calling for another protest today.. Stopping traffic on area interstates at 4:30 p.m. Monday.

The three weeks of demonstrations have certainly stopped the traffic in Ferguson, with roads like West Florissant closing on an almost daily basis. Now some protesters are hoping to stop traffic on the highways around St. Louis.

It is a proposed act of civil disobedience that was pitched Sunday to the one thousand people who attended the national march on Ferguson in response to the killing of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson.

 

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ferguson-officer-fundraisers-20140831-story.html

After reaching $433,000, donations for Ferguson cop halt mysteriously

After raising more than $400,000 for the police officer who killed an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., two online donation pages appear to have been shut down by their organizers without explanation this weekend.

On the crowdsourced fundraising site ********, "Support Officer Darren Wilson" and "Support Officer Wilson" -- two separate pages with similar names -- have raised $235,750 and $197,620, respectively, for the Ferguson police officer who shot Michael Brown on Aug. 9.

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_af4f4923-82dd-5507-a493-9d3b7b82ebab.html

Michael Brown's uncle collapses at St. Louis Police Foundation lunch

Michael Brown’s uncle collapsed early Tuesday afternoon at a police charity lunch, eight days after speaking at the funeral of the young man at the center of the Ferguson shooting controversy.

Paramedics took the Rev. Charles Ewing from the America’s Center downtown to St. Louis University Hospital. His condition was not disclosed.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_ca156c3c-37b2-5b1d-b4ad-a79b196c433a.html

Post-Dispatch seeks juvenile court records

In response to a number of inquiries today, I wanted to confirm that the Post-Dispatch filed a petition last week with the St. Louis County Family Court seeking the release of any juvenile court records it may have relating to Michael Brown.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_417dbb59-d319-56d3-9841-a78e74d74943.html

Fundraisers for Darren Wilson halted while awaiting legal advice

Websites raising money for Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson temporarily stopped accepting donations Sunday while the sites' administrators await clarification on whether the money can be used to cover the officer's legal expenses, according to organizers.

The administrator of the first page, dubbed "Support Officer Darren Wilson," is a teenager who raised more than $200,000 to help cover legal and medical bills as well as the cost of safely relocating Wilson and his family, according to a press release issued today by The Shield of Hope, a nonprofit arm of the Fraternal Order of Police.

 

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Acoustic experts detail purported Ferguson shooting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...c-experts-detail-purported-ferguson-shooting/

When the purported recording was revealed earlier this week, the experts analyzed it, said Ralph Clark, chief executive officer of [ShotSpotter technology].

Takeaways: the shootings all took place within about 6.5 seconds. There was a 3 sec pause between shot #6 and shot #7. The shooter didn't move more than 4 feet.

 

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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/emmett-till-michael-brown-story-old-america-itself

From Emmett Till to Michael Brown, a story as old as America itself

Familiarity breeds contempt.

For two weeks now, as we’ve watched the events in Ferguson, Missouri unfold, there’s been a vulgar familiarity about them. The grieving family, the protesters, the police in gas masks and military garb: They all seemed locked into a story as old as America itself. It is the story of implicit bias, black pain, disenfranchised communities and systemic racism.


http://fox2now.com/2014/09/02/mid-m...es-by-witness-in-michael-brown-shooting-case/

Mid-Missouri man describes repeated lies by witness in Michael Brown Shooting Case

We’re looking deeper into the criminal cases against a witness in the Michael Brown shooting.

Dorian Johnson pleaded guilty to lying to police in a 2011 theft case and a warrant still remains for his arrest. FOX2’s Chris Hayes went to Jefferson City to talk to a man who says he caught Johnson stealing and then listened to his repeated lies.

It started behind the Jefferson City YMCA, where Kelly Lewis, a maintenance man said he saw someone, later identified as Dorian Johnson, carrying a FedEx box from a nearby apartment complex.



http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/26432930/lawsuits-seek-ferguson-victims-juvenile-records

Lawsuits seek Ferguson victim's juvenile records

Lingering questions about Michael Brown could be answered Wednesday when a judge considers two media requests to release any possible juvenile records of the unarmed 18-year-old who was killed by a Missouri police officer last month.

Juvenile records are confidential in Missouri, so it's not known if Brown was arrested before he legally became an adult. Police have said Brown had no adult criminal record. The family's attorney, Benjamin Crump, has refused to discuss whether Brown had a juvenile record.

 

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...7dd928-33bc-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html

Justice Dept. to probe Ferguson police force

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. this week will launch a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, according to two federal law enforcement officials.

The investigation, which could be announced as early as Thursday afternoon, will be conducted by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and follow a process similar to that used to investigate complaints of profiling and the use of excessive force in other police departments across the country, the officials said.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_43c9bbbb-356f-5ea6-b9e2-7dde7e3e5c83.html

Juvenile court: Michael Brown had no most serious felony convictions or pending cases

As a child, Michael Brown was never found delinquent of the juvenile equivalents of Missouri’s most serious felony charges and was not facing any at the time he died, a court official said Wednesday.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch filed a petition Aug. 22 asking a judge in the St. Louis County Family Court to open any juvenile records on Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot to death last month by a Ferguson police officer. A conservative blogger from California had separately requested the records be opened.

Police had said earlier that the Brown had no adult criminal record.


http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Mich...onvictions-outstanding-charges-273786371.html

Michael Brown had no serious felony juvenile convictions, charges

The 18-year-old fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer didn't face any juvenile charges at the time of his death and never was charged with a serious felony such as murder, robbery or burglary, a juvenile court system lawyer said Wednesday.

Those details emerged at a hearing in which two media organizations sought the release of any possible juvenile records for Michael Brown.


http://fox2now.com/2014/09/03/michael-browns-juvenile-record-had-no-serious-criminal-conviction/

Michael Brown’s juvenile record had no serious criminal conviction

Michael Brown did not have a serious criminal conviction as a minor. That`s according to a Juvenile Court Officer who argued against releasing Brown`s juvenile record (if one exists). Two attorneys fought for the release. A St. Louis County Family Court Judge is now considering the arguments and her decision could come at any time.

Brown family attorney Anthony Gray also attended the hearing and said, ‘To bring up someone`s past as a child and to somehow say that has some influence as to how they behave two years later, I just think is very unfair and very contradictory to public policy of the State of Missouri.’

Gray believes the juvenile officer made it clear in court that nothing exists.

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinio...cle_f1aad880-f501-5a48-9d70-00f5d3c8c4fb.html

Editorial: Justice Department investigation will have to expand beyond Ferguson

A few numbers indicate a civil rights investigation of the Ferguson Police Department is long overdue. On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Department of Justice will begin such an inquiry. This is an important and positive step forward, but we suspect when he gets into the numbers, and examines the reality of North St. Louis County, Ferguson will play but a small role in a larger investigation.

First, those numbers:


http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/loca...pports-new-probe-of-ferguson-police/15083157/

Justice Department launches Ferguson police inquiry

The Justice Department has opened a broad investigation into allegations of unlawful policing tactics in Ferguson, Mo., scene of last month's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen that set off weeks of sometimes violent protests.

Attorney General Eric Holder, who visited Ferguson two weeks ago, said Thursday that the probe is in addition to a previously announced federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown, 18.


http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/loca...dges-cooperation-with-federal-probe/15079477/

Ferguson pledges cooperation with federal probe

City officials in Ferguson, Missouri, are pledging their full cooperation with a federal civil-rights investigation into their police department following the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Attorney General Eric Holder was expected to announce the investigation into the department Thursday afternoon at a news conference in Washington.


http://www.kmov.com/special-coverag...could-have-wide-ranging-impact-274026651.html

DOJ investigation into Ferguson could have wide-ranging impact

The Department of Justice has two separate investigations involving the Ferguson Police Department.

The first focuses on the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown. The second, announced Thursday, will examine possible civil rights violations, including those that may involve racial profiling and arrests. The investigation of the Ferguson Police Department is only part of the Department of Justice’s push for policing reform in St. Louis County.
Following what many critics described as heavy-handed military style policing, the Justice Department also reached an agreement with St. Louis County police to perform a comprehensive assessment of the department.



http://fox2now.com/2014/09/04/st-lo...-to-address-justice-department-investigation/

St. Louis County Police Chief Belmar addresses Justice Department investigation

The Justice Department says the St. Louis County Police Department will be included in an investigation into Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson. US Attorney General Eric Holder said Chief Belmar has voluntarily asked to be included in the review during a press conference Thursday in Washington DC.

St. Louis County Chief of Police Jon Belmar will held a press conference Thursday to address the comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder. He said that his department is confident that they will pass the review. He says that this is different than the situation in Ferguson. The Chief invited the DOJ to investigate the department. The investigation could last a few months. But, he says it shouldn’t be a distraction to his officers.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/u...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Federal Inquiry of Ferguson Police Will Include Apparent Racial Profiling

The Justice Department’s civil rights investigation into the police department in Ferguson, Mo., will focus on whether officers there made discriminatory traffic stops, mistreated prisoners or used excessive force in the years before last month’s fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Thursday.

Mr. Holder said the decision to open the investigation was influenced by his trip to Ferguson after the shooting of the teenager, Michael Brown, 18, prompted protesters to clash with heavily armed police officers in the streets. Residents there complained that the police had abused their authority for years and disproportionately targeted African-Americans for stops and searches.


http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/doj-open-civil-rights-investigation-ferguson-police

Ferguson welcomes federal civil rights police investigation

The Justice Department will open a civil rights investigation into policing practices in Ferguson, Mo., Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday. The move marks the Obama Administration’s most forceful step to address racial strife in the mostly African-American St. Louis suburb, where a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen on Aug. 9.

Ferguson activists and community leaders say they are welcoming the investigation, saying the practice of racial profiling by police was widespread in the community long before department veteran Darren Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. The incident sparked days of protests and a heavy police crackdown.

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinio...cle_d7b2cb5e-644b-54b2-bb8e-e79953436122.html

Editorial: Finding empathy key to moving forward from Ferguson unrest

In his 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explained that the target of civil disobedience actions intended to combat racism wasn’t so much the racists themselves, but the “white moderates” who allowed such racism to fester.

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection,” Dr. King wrote. “Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”

 

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Interview with tree trimmer witness:

http://fox2now.com/2014/08/12/witness-claims-he-saw-what-happened-when-michael-brown-was-shot/

 

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_14a3e5f8-6c6a-5deb-92fe-87fcee622c29.html

Workers who were witnesses provide new perspective on Michael Brown shooting

Among the claims that ignited the fury over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown were that Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson chased the unarmed teen on foot, shot at him as he ran away, then fired a barrage of fatal shots after Brown had turned around with his hands up.

Almost all of the witnesses who shared these accounts with media either knew Brown; lived at or near the Canfield Green apartments, where the shooting occurred; or were visiting friends or relatives there.