In St. Louis,Missouri on the day of August 9th, 2014 Michael Brown an African American 18 year old kid was shot by a white cop by the name of Officer Wilson. Michael was walking along the streets on St. Louis with one of his buddies and next thing you know a cop drives up behind them and orders them to move to the sidewalk. Then Michael didn’t take the situation too lightly so the officer and the young man started a physical altercation that lead into the shooting death of Michael Brown. The people of the neighborhood after then started to riot in the streets wanting justice for Michael believing that he was gunned down in cold blood.
At first nobody knew what to do about the rioters or the people standing up to the police because they could …show more content…
This isn’t caused a lot of differences between residents and officers of the St.Louis community and it’s getting bad and everything that is going on is affecting the way everyone is doing things. The funeral held for Michael Brown was held in St. Louis at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church on August 25, 2014.
Thousands of people attended this funeral to show their respect and to apologize for what happened. A lot of famous and well known actors showed up at this funeral. President Obama didn’t make it to the funeral but he had a few things to say on the behalf of Michael Brown. He just said that he understands where both sides are coming from so he doesn’t start any controversy. In that statement he mentioned that he just wishes that the residents would keep the peace. An for the police to understand the frustration of the residents and where they are coming from on the …show more content…
With that being said the officer will not be arrested or put on trial or anything like that. A lot of protesting all across the United States of America started after they heard the news about what happened.
After Michael Brown’s family heard the news all they asked was to have the police wear body cameras in their suits so everyone in the future with an incident like this can see what actually happened. Also they want all the protesting to stop and just be peaceful about the whole thing. Obviously they aren’t going to beat the state so they might well just leave it alone. They also thank all the people for showing their respects at the funeral.
Fighting the police department won’t bring Michael back so what has happened is a huge tragedy but there isn’t nothing anyone else can do. This thing doesn’t happen everyday Michael and his friends have been harassed by the police in the past before and nobody took action or said
At first nobody knew what to do about the rioters or the people standing up to the police because they could …show more content…
This isn’t caused a lot of differences between residents and officers of the St.Louis community and it’s getting bad and everything that is going on is affecting the way everyone is doing things. The funeral held for Michael Brown was held in St. Louis at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church on August 25, 2014.
Thousands of people attended this funeral to show their respect and to apologize for what happened. A lot of famous and well known actors showed up at this funeral. President Obama didn’t make it to the funeral but he had a few things to say on the behalf of Michael Brown. He just said that he understands where both sides are coming from so he doesn’t start any controversy. In that statement he mentioned that he just wishes that the residents would keep the peace. An for the police to understand the frustration of the residents and where they are coming from on the …show more content…
With that being said the officer will not be arrested or put on trial or anything like that. A lot of protesting all across the United States of America started after they heard the news about what happened.
After Michael Brown’s family heard the news all they asked was to have the police wear body cameras in their suits so everyone in the future with an incident like this can see what actually happened. Also they want all the protesting to stop and just be peaceful about the whole thing. Obviously they aren’t going to beat the state so they might well just leave it alone. They also thank all the people for showing their respects at the funeral.
Fighting the police department won’t bring Michael back so what has happened is a huge tragedy but there isn’t nothing anyone else can do. This thing doesn’t happen everyday Michael and his friends have been harassed by the police in the past before and nobody took action or said