Can Ferguson’s Protests Build a Nationwide Movement Against Police Violence?
  • October 14, 2014

Can Ferguson’s Protests Build a Nationwide Movement Against Police Violence?

Can Ferguson’s Protests Build a Nationwide Movement Against Police Violence?

More than sixty days after the killing of Michael Brown, Ferguson October is building momentum against police violence.

Melissa Harris-Perry
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It has been more than sixty days since the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This past weekend, thousands of protesters took to the streets for the beginning of Ferguson October, a series of events meant to kick off an organized movement against police violence. On Saturday, Mychal Denzel Smith joined the Melissa Harris-Perry show with editor-in-chief of GlobalGrind.com Michael Skolnik, and the author of Impolite Conversations, Cora Daniels, to discuss the movement building in Ferguson. “Justice is not just confined to whether or not Darren Wilson is arrested and whether or not he is indicted,” Denzel Smith explained. “Justice is the other demands—how we shift police culture and how the interactions between young black people and the police go from here forward and I think that’s the bigger movement.”
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Melissa Harris-Perry Melissa Harris-Perry is the Maya Angelou Presidential Chair and Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs and the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. She is also the co-host of The Nation’s System Check podcast.


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