In school, Elizabeth was constantly bombarded. She was supposed to have security guards making sure she was safe, but the guards didn’t even …show more content…
A rampant issue in the world today, and an issue that has always been going on, is police brutality against people of color. A myriad of racially driven crimes have occurred in the town of Ferguson, Missouri. It all started with Mike Brown, and now the town is a huge site for racial protests. This all started the movement "Black Lives Matter.” Mike Brown was an unarmed teen who was killed in Ferguson. Ferguson is a town with a lot of racial tension; Wilson fired 12 bullets at him simply because he was suspected of stealing cigarillos. He was shot by white police officer Darren Wilson, who was not held accountable for the murder