Ferguson Marks First Anniversary of the Killing of Michael Brown Jr Sunday Aug 09,2015

 

Michael Brown Sr. (center) leads a march from the location where his son Michael Brown Jr. was shot and killed following a memorial service marking the anniversary of his death on August 9, 2015 in Ferguson, Missouri.

Brown Jr., 18 was shot six times in a street scuffle with Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. A grand jury cleared the cop of any criminal wrongdoing.

 

Two doves soared into the sky Sunday  Aug 09,2015 above the spot where Michael Brown Jr. died one year earlier as hundreds of Ferguson protestors remembered the slain black teen
“Miss you,” said his dad Michael Sr., who led a somber march through the Missouri town. He held the hands of other demonstrators on the first anniversary of the fatal shooting.
The father also thanked everyone who turned out Sunday, saying their presence from the start prevented the case from getting “swept under the carpet.”

Many in the crowd wore T-shirts bearing his son’s face or a now-familiar message: “Hands up! Don’t shoot!”

Several hundred people have paused in silence in the US town of Ferguson on the first anniversary of the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.

The four-and-a-half-minute tribute was meant to reflect the approximate hours that Mr Brown's body lay in the street.
Activists and religious figures from across the country were among those who have gathered this weekend in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri.
The Reverend Osagyefo Sekou, from the Ferguson Action Council, told that last year's events had led to some positive change in the black community but not in society at large.