Ferguson Police Take A Knee In Honor Of George Floyd

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Protesters demanding justice and change in the wake of the latest police killing of a Black man were joined in solidarity on Saturday by officers in Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown, a Black teen, was killed by police in 2014.

Ferguson Police Chief Jason Armstrong, who joined the department last year, took a knee in honor of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck while Floyd was restrained on the ground.

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Videos posted to Twitter captured Armstrong at one point marching with protesters who were chanting “hands up, don’t shoot,” as well as several Ferguson police officers kneeling on the pavement to applause from the crowd.

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Armstrong and his officers joined about 500 people that had gathered outside of the police department in protest, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

For weeks in August 2014, Ferguson was the scene of violent protests after a white police officer fatally shot Brown, who was unarmed, for what he claimed were self-defense reasons.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ferguson-police-take-a-knee-in-honor-of-george-floyd/ar-BB14Qj11?li=BBnbcA1

[Squinch]

1. Wow.

[stillcool]

2. +1

[Sherman A1]

3. Things turned violent last night there

7 officers were injured, fireworks were tossed at police and windows at the station were broken, by a couple of white males from the local news broadcast I viewed.

[MFGsunny]

4. Ferguson rises by taking a knee. MORAL LEADERSHIP ...

... from a place of a grief-stricken moral compass.

[Beartracks]

5. Wow, that was 6 years ago??