Michael Brown’s father says family still in mourning

On the eve of the anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed during a confrontation with a police officer, Brown’s father said Saturday that the family still mourns the 18-year-old’s death.

Activists, religious leaders and others are converging on the St Louis suburb for a weekend of marches and concerts and a moment of silence.

Residents of Ferguson attempt to move on with a newly structured balance of power a year afer Michael Brown’s death.

It also spurred the “Black Lives Matter” movement that has cast a spotlight on long-troubled relations between police and minority residents of many American cities. Our city government has not become any more communicative. REUTERS/Rick … “I’m thinking, ‘My God, these people don’t even know me, ‘” Morris says. Many declined to be named, out of fear of attracting unwanted police attention.

But she still advises her 13-year-old stepson never to agitate a police officer for fear of what the officer might do.

Three young protestors, including a three-year-old (C, top) pose for a photographer outside the poli … But there’s still people that are still hurt and angry. Brown had just taken part in a theft at a convenience store, and Wilson says Brown had went for Wilson’s gun. “It’s going to take some time”. “In a a short period of time, we have done a lot of work”.

At least one black officer quit the force after Brown’s shooting and others have shied away due to the negative attention the department has received, said Fuller.

Within weeks of Brown’s death, Ferguson police began wearing body cameras donated to the city. As noon approached, police following in patrol cars handed out water and popsicles to marchers as they walked five miles in the Missouri summer humidity.

They are also inviting area teens on “ride-alongs” to learn what is involved in policing and have started distributing literature about community programs at a farmer’s market.

In Ferguson, Mo. residents are hopeful for the future, as the town of about 21,000 looks at changes both big and small a year after the death of Michael Brown. She had regular customers, many of them seniors who shopped at the “church woman’s store” for their Sunday finest. “It allowed us to finally open up our ears to listen to some of them… the ones that really had a objective to being out there”. Killed on August 9, 2014, residents of Ferguson gathered at West Florissant Avenue before marching through the streets of the city to the Ferguson Police station.