Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/08/2026#OtD 9 Aug 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking mass protests across the US stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1088... 5282153
History is a Teacher (No Pupils though) @needmoretrains.northsky.social · 09/08/2026It was around this time that, seeing all the white devils who not only displayed 0 sympathy but went into overdrive to portray his death as deserved & beneficial to society, I realized the crimes of this country would never be purged but with blood. And revolution. Fitting Missouri would teach me! 030
Starshark @starshark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Notice how the wikipedia article talks about Michael Brown and Officer Wilson's heights and weights. Big scary black kid, you see. 1101
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Michael Orlandus Darrion Brown (May 20, 1996 – August 9, 2014) graduated from Normandy High School in St. Louis County eight days before his death, completing an alternative education program. At the time of his death, he was 18 years old, 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 meters) tall, and weighed 292 pounds (132 kilograms). He was an amateur rap musician who posted his songs on the popular music-sharing site SoundCloud under the handle "Big'Mike." He was two days from starting a training program for heating and air conditioning repair at Vatterott College technical school.
Darren Dean Wilson (born May 14, 1986, in Fort Worth, Texas) is 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall and at the time weighed about 210 lb (95 kg). Wilson's first police job was in the town of Jennings, Missouri, where he began working in 2009. With respect to this job, Wilson said to The New Yorker in 2015, "I'd never been in an area where there was that much poverty."
The police force in Jennings was shut down by the town's city council in March 2011. In October 2011, Wilson began working for the Ferguson Police Department. In February 2013, Wilson won a commendation from the Ferguson Police Department after he apprehended a suspect who was later charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and resisting arrest.
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