On 9 August 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking mass protests across the US.
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"Murder of Mike Brown, 2014." Historianspeaks, August 12, 2025. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/murder-of-mike-brown-2014.
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