Minutes of silence held on anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in

One year after black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by a white police officer, sparking protests and a year of heightened attention to the issue of police treatment of the black community, public attitude has far outpaced legislative change, the president of the NAACP said Sunday.

At the earlier march, which ended at Brown’s Normandy High School, his father told reporters he was working hard at “keeping my son’s life still around” and doing “whatever I can do to empower us as a people“. Brown was shot by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, who is white. Wilson claims that he had to shoot at Brown in fear of his safety. Every set that was out here, everybody who had problems with anybody-it squashed all of that. “We’re all in this together”.

In an interview with the BBC, Brown Sr. expressed ongoing sorrow at the loss of his son, tempered by satisfaction with what he saw as progress stemming from the shooting. “There’s a level of fear on my part, so this experience for them, being here, is even more important than it is for me or my wife”. “Just because I have been around this track for now for a while”.

(KTRS) – Marchers took to the streets in Ferguson last night. The occasions are amongst a number of this weekend in Ferguson and close by St. Louis. “And you knew what that officer did was unjustified”.

A timeline of key events following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on August. 9, 2014.

He had thanked supporters before the march for not allowing what happened to his son to be “swept under the carpet”.

In the year that has passed, the U.S. Department of Justice released a scathing report showing systematic abuse through bench warrants for minor offenses of the city’s primarily African- American population.

That activism has included confronting presidential candidates – usually Democrats – over their response to the “Black Lives Matter” movement. In Maryland, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby in May announced she would file charges against all six officers involved in Freddie Gray’s death; in doing so, she explicitly acknowledged the role of the protesters who demanded accountability and reform.

Fuller, who has spent 17 years on the Ferguson force, said the department is well aware that it will take time to heal the deep wounds. The officer was also cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury and is seeking to return to work.

Brian Fletcher, a Ferguson city council member and former mayor, said he is most concerned about whether an agreement can be reached that ensures the city and its police department can survive economically.

Asked what has changed in America’s tortured race relations over the past year, he said: “Nothing, for me”. We became less concerned with winning acceptance and more determined to win our freedom. Is extreme civil unrest what’s required to make a difference in the world? “We do this for Mike Brown” during a daytime rally with a children’s marching band bringing up the rear of the parade. But we also remember the Watts Rebellion, and the trauma of Katrina – three distinct periods of resistance prompted or exacerbated by police violence.