Hey! So we have this project at school were we're going to run a blog! Only two post, but on one of the posts you can choose the theme urself! I wanted to write about Ferguson, and kinda explain it to ppl who doesn't know too much.. I was wondering if you had some key points that I could mention and stuff? Thank you :)
Awesome!
Here are some things you could include:
The heavily militarized police response (especially at the beginning), the “5-second rule,” treatment of journalists, the curfew (and its reminiscence of “sundown towns”), constant lies from the police department (particularly about the use of tear gas), the police union charity raising funds for Darren Wilson (specifically the involvement of Jeff Roorda), the governor preemptively calling in the national guard (and then not deploying them the night of the grand jury announcement), the extremely unusual proceedings of the grand jury, the national and international response in solidarity…
