JOUR 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Riot Control, Moving Violations, Jaywalking
20 Feb 2019
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In the summer of 2014, the town of ferguson, missouri exploded. Hundred of demonstrators poured into the streets to denounce the killing of michael brown, an unarmed black teen, who lay in the street for over three hours after being shot dead by the local police. The police department responded with paramilitary force- riot gear, tanks, and tear gas. Night after night, american news focused on the angry black mobs and their destructive protests. Yet few americans ever learned of back story- decades of police harassment that focused on the poor blacks that traversed the tiny white enclaves surrounding ferguson. These tiny towns resulted as whites fled from saint louis during the 50s and 60s when legal racial segregation was dismantled during the civil rights movement. Each town has its own police department; each supported in part or whole by ticketing african.
