On Aug. 10, 2014, my first day
of protest after the shooting
of Michael Brown Jr., I stood
outside the Ferguson Police
Department and asked an officer
why, on the night prior, he had
brought German shepherds
to a black community in grief,
evoking the trauma of the mid-
century civil rights movement.
“Well, did anyone die?” he replied.
NATION
HOW FERGUSON
WOKE US UP
By Brittany Packnett