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The teenager\u2019s killing in 2014 set off a wave of protests in Ferguson and around the country, and helped elevate the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EYesterday, the Movement for Black Lives commemorated Brown\u2019s death and addressed the systemic racism that has led to the police killings of\u00a0countless other Black people.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022twitter-tweet\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003ETHREAD\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIt\u2019s been 6 years since Mike was taken from us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n1\/10 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/HaPQ3MXgGc\u0022\u003Epic.twitter.com\/HaPQ3MXgGc\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Movement 4 Black Lives (@Mvmnt4BlkLives) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mvmnt4BlkLives\/status\/1292561001364291584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EAugust 9, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\u0022\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022twitter-tweet\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003EHis name became a prayer, a battle cry, and a call to action. We took to the streets and didn\u2019t leave for more than 400 days. All eyes were on Ferguson for the longest, continual protest in American history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n2\/10\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Movement 4 Black Lives (@Mvmnt4BlkLives) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mvmnt4BlkLives\/status\/1292561002337271810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EAugust 9, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\u0022\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022twitter-tweet\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003ENow, our country is facing another public reckoning. The protests that started in Ferguson have grown and multiplied. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade \u0026amp; too many others, our righteous cause has been reignited.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n3\/10\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Movement 4 Black Lives (@Mvmnt4BlkLives) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mvmnt4BlkLives\/status\/1292561003130097671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EAugust 9, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are creating solutions and re-imagining new paradigms for Black, Brown, and traditionally marginalized communities throughout \u003Ca data-focusable=\u0022true\u0022 dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreedomSummer2020?src=hashtag_click\u0022 role=\u0022link\u0022\u003E#FreedomSummer2020\u003C\/a\u003E because those closest to pain should be closest to power,\u0022 the Movement for Black Lives wrote on Twitter.\u00a0\u003Cscript async=\u0022\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2015, several\u00a0months after Brown\u0027s death, the US Department of Justice released a report which\u00a0found that the Ferguson Police Department engaged in an extensive pattern of racially biased policing. As reported by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2015\/03\/04\/the-12-key-highlights-from-the-dojs-scathing-ferguson-report\/\u0022\u003EWashington Post\u003C\/a\u003E: \u0022Investigators determined that in \u0027nearly every aspect of Ferguson\u2019s law enforcement system,\u0027\u00a0African Americans are impacted a severely disproportionate amount. The report included\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/in-ferguson-three-minutes--and-two-lives-forever-changed\/2014\/08\/16\/f28f5bc0-2588-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eracist e-mails\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0sent by police and municipal court supervisors, repeated examples of bias in law enforcement and a system that seemed built upon using arrest warrants to squeeze money out of residents.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/06\/02\/us-address-structural-racism-underlying-protests\u0022\u003ERead more from Human Rights Watch on how\u00a0to address systemic racism in policing \u0026gt; \u0026gt; \u0026gt;\u00a0\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]